Understanding the New Global Economy

Preface

Economic globalisation is slowing and facing political headwinds. This book argues that globalisation is not passé, but merely changing its character. A new global economy (NGE) is emerging, cross-border (inter-)dependencies are changing, and governance in the global economy has to come to terms with a new multipolar world.

The book provides an accessible executive guide to the contemporary world economy for a broad audience of all those stakeholders in business, policy, and civil society, who are deeply interested in or affected by globalisation. As the NGE is evolving fast, new issues are coming up on an almost daily basis. The basic idea of this book is therefore to clarify the fundamental questions and trade-offs, rather than offering ...