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Are We Held Back by 20th Century Thinking?

Richard E. Baldwin , Author, The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization

13-Jun-17 08:05

Are We Held Back by 20th Century Thinking?

“From 1990, the trend flipped; a century’s worth of rich nations’ rise has been reversed in just two decades. Their share is now back to where it was in 1914. This trend, which might be called the ‘Great Convergence’, is surely the dominant economic fact of the last two or three decades. It is the origin of much of the anti-globalization sentiment in rich nations, and much of the new assertiveness of “emerging markets,” writes Professor Baldwin. Today he speaks to us both about global trends as well as our own national car project.


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