The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

by Philip Auerswald
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

by Philip Auerswald

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Overview

Ours is the most dynamic era in human history. The benefits of four centuries of technological and organizational change are at last reaching a previously excluded global majority. This transformation will create large-scale opportunities in richer countries like the United States just as it has in poorer countries now in the ascent.

In The Coming Prosperity, Philip E. Auerswald argues that it is time to overcome the outdated narratives of fear that dominate public discourse and to grasp the powerful momentum of progress. Acknowledging the gravity of today's greatest global challenges—like climate change, water scarcity, and rapid urbanization—Auerswald emphasizes that the choices we make today will determine the extent and reach of the coming prosperity. To make the most of this epochal transition, he writes, the key is entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs introduce new products and services, expand the range of global knowledge networks, and, most importantly, challenge established business interests, maintaining the vitality of mature capitalist economies and enhancing the viability of emerging ones. Auerswald frames narratives of inspiring entrepreneurs within the sweep of human history. The book's deft analysis of economic trends is enlivened by stories of entrepreneurs making an outsize difference in their communities and the world—people like Karim Khoja, who led the creation of the first mobile phone company in Afghanistan; Leila Janah, who is bringing digital-age opportunity to talented people trapped in refugee camps; and Victoria Hale, whose non-profit pharmaceutical company turned an orphan drug into a cure for black fever.

Engagingly written and bracingly realistic about the prospects of our historical moment, The Coming Prosperity disarms the current narratives of fear and brings to light the vast new opportunities in the expanding global economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199795178
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/02/2012
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Philip Auerswald is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. He is also the Co-founder and Co-editor of Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Time of Our Lives

Part I: Strength in Numbers
Chapter 1 - Car Trouble
Chapter 2 - Demographic Dividends
Chapter 3 - I'm So Bored With the PRC
Chapter 4 - Positive Insurgencies

Part II: The Animating Element
Chapter 5 - Mobilizing the Masses
Chapter 6 - You Are What You Venture
Chapter 7 - The Way of the Empty Hand
Chapter 8 - Before Adam Smith
Chapter 9 - What's Good for GM…

Part III: Participatory Prosperity
Chapter 10 - Time to be What Matters
Chapter 11 - Collaborative Advantage
Chapter 12 - From Passion to Purpose

Part IV: The Next America
Chapter 13 - Fear Itself
Chapter 14 - Left, Right…Forward
Chapter 15 - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
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