The Impoverishment of Nations
eBook - ePub

The Impoverishment of Nations

The issues facing the post meltdown global economy

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Impoverishment of Nations

The issues facing the post meltdown global economy

About this book

Early in 2007 Leigh Skene warned of the danger of a meltdown in global markets. Now, while governments spend furiously to rescue the global economy, he again challenges received wisdom. In The Impoverishment of Nations, he prescribes a different solution, outlining a plan to deal with a very different economic future, following the financial crisis that ended the longest period of prosperity for some five hundred years. We have entered a period of uncertainty, which has placed a huge burden on public finances. Governments have spent $10 trillion on bailing out financial institutions and other firms, including General Motors. We are at a tipping point and the future will be unlike the past - one of the most dangerous economic stages any generation can face.In his penetrating analysis, Leigh Skene traces how we got here and what has to happen for the global economy to recover the ground it has lost in less than two years. He looks at the shift of economic power to emerging nations, the inevitability of deflation, the unfitness for purpose of the financial markets, how governments' share of output must shrink, how solvency not liquidity caused the current crisis, and how it is wrong to think you can borrow your way to growth.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Put not thy trust in fiat money
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Structural impediments to rising living standards
  10. 2 Emerging nations are becoming global leaders
  11. 3 Is inflation inevitable?
  12. 4 The global financial system: not fit for purpose
  13. 5 We cannot borrow our way out of debt
  14. 6 Credit and financial markets
  15. 7 Populist policies do not work
  16. Ten basic truths
  17. Notes