| Title : | Globalisation laid bare : lessons in international business | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Richard Branson, Author of introduction, etc. | | Publisher: | Gibson Square | | Publication Date: | 2009 | | Other publisher: | The Industry and Parliament Trust | | Pagination: | 203 p. [7 p.] | | Size: | 22 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-906142-19-3 | | Class number: | 338 | | Abstract: | In the past decade we reaped the benefits of unprecedented globalisation without much awareness or cost to ourselves. In September 2008, this changed when the easy flow of money around the world ceased. For the first time, globalisation turned into a phenomenon that all of us should understand. How are our lives affected when, through international business, ideas, goods and money are adopted by other cultures? Introduced by Sir Richard Branson, Globalisation Laid Bare identifies the core insights that drive globalisation and where we should look for answers and pitfalls. It brings together much-needed and illuminating observations from world experts in the West and Asia from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Ecofeminist Dr Vandana Shiva. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; Preface; Contributor Biographies; Richard Branson - Introduction; Amartya Sen - Adam Smith never stood alone;
1. Subi Rangan - Globalisation the Jedi way; 2. Vincent Cable - The UKs role in the world economy; 3. Harold Che - Investing in the UK versus investing in China; 4. Jim O'Neill - BRICs and mortar; 5. Clare Short - Globalisation: Fostering inequality and poverty?; 6. Vandana Shiva - The social costs of economic globalisation; 7. Peter Jones - Globalisation and SMEs; 8. Stuart Rose - Business and sustainability; 9. Chris Tuppen - Corporate responsibility and competitiveness; 10. Jeffrey Owen - Providing a global tax environment; 11. Alan Duncan - Soft power and aggressive investment; 12. Peter Mandelson - Demographic change, globalisation and trade policy; Index. |
Globalisation laid bare : lessons in international business [printed text] / Richard Branson, Author of introduction, etc. . - London : Gibson Square : [S.l.] : The Industry and Parliament Trust, 2009 . - 203 p. [7 p.] ; 22 cm. ISBN : 978-1-906142-19-3 | Class number: | 338 | | Abstract: | In the past decade we reaped the benefits of unprecedented globalisation without much awareness or cost to ourselves. In September 2008, this changed when the easy flow of money around the world ceased. For the first time, globalisation turned into a phenomenon that all of us should understand. How are our lives affected when, through international business, ideas, goods and money are adopted by other cultures? Introduced by Sir Richard Branson, Globalisation Laid Bare identifies the core insights that drive globalisation and where we should look for answers and pitfalls. It brings together much-needed and illuminating observations from world experts in the West and Asia from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Ecofeminist Dr Vandana Shiva. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; Preface; Contributor Biographies; Richard Branson - Introduction; Amartya Sen - Adam Smith never stood alone;
1. Subi Rangan - Globalisation the Jedi way; 2. Vincent Cable - The UKs role in the world economy; 3. Harold Che - Investing in the UK versus investing in China; 4. Jim O'Neill - BRICs and mortar; 5. Clare Short - Globalisation: Fostering inequality and poverty?; 6. Vandana Shiva - The social costs of economic globalisation; 7. Peter Jones - Globalisation and SMEs; 8. Stuart Rose - Business and sustainability; 9. Chris Tuppen - Corporate responsibility and competitiveness; 10. Jeffrey Owen - Providing a global tax environment; 11. Alan Duncan - Soft power and aggressive investment; 12. Peter Mandelson - Demographic change, globalisation and trade policy; Index. |
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