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Summary: A fresh approach to global economy.
Review: Winning the Global Game Jeffrey A. RosensweigThe book presents one great discovery, what is well above the average. So it is worth of reading. But if you want to learn how the global economy is structured in next 50 years and if your business depends on global developments the reading is vital. Rosensweig likes models, what the readers not speaking about students, normally do not like. But he also likes clarity and simple sentences. So what you have in the book, is a lot of figures and scientific accuracy, but all of it in clear and easy to follow form. The conventional knowledge is that the population of developed nations compared to developing nations is declining. And if you take the standard population and output statistics then you have to agree with it. But if you forget the national statistics and try to look on the world as set of economic regions the result is different. And this is what Rosensweig actually does. Few years ago US former labor secretary Robert Reich in his book "The Work of Nations" and Japanese management thinker Kenjiti Ohmae in his book "The End of the Nation State: The Rise of National Economies" argued that thinking in the terms of nation states is not valid any more. Economic regions are more important to describe the new world economic development. Now we see Rosenswig to use the concept. His discovery is that if by year 2000 the share of developed regions in the world population is 33,8%, then by year 2010 it will be 44%. Why so? Simple, you just have to ignore the nation states and look on huge emerging countries as China for example just as set of regions. The result is that you see some of regions belonging to almost developed industrial world and some of them to rather poor agricultural world. Rosenswig also briefly desribes how it is possible for the nations to get out vigorous circle of generating the poverty. But what is especially important he presents the examples of the nations who could do it.
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