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The Great Rebalancing
- Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on the recent financial crisis and were the result of unfortunate policies that distorted the savings and consumption patterns of certain nations. Pettis examines the reasons behind these destabilizing policies, and he predicts severe economic dislocations--a lost decade for China, the breaking of the Euro, and a receding of the U.S. dollar--that will have long-lasting effects.
Pettis explains how China has maintained massive--but unsustainable--investment growth by artificially lowering the cost of capital. He discusses how Germany is endangering the Euro by favoring its own development at the expense of its neighbors. And he looks at how the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency burdens America's economy. Although various imbalances may seem unrelated, Pettis shows that all of them--including the U.S. consumption binge, surging debt in Europe, China's investment orgy, Japan's long stagnation, and the commodity boom in Latin America--are closely tied together, and that it will be impossible to resolve any issue without forcing a resolution for all.
Demonstrating how economic policies can carry negative repercussions the world over, The Great Rebalancing sheds urgent light on our globally linked economic future.
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- raymond taptue
- 06-08-19
amazing book.. love it.
it could not be possible to explain trade imbalance better.. I loved it. amazing
the world need to a better system to accommodate growing need of efficient allocation of scarce resources.
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- Adrian J. Smith
- 16-06-19
Excellent account of world trade
Michael Pettis displays a sound understanding of the global economy and illustrates how economic behaviour in one country causes reverberations in another.
Essentially, important points to take home is that the Dollar as a reserve currency is more of an exorbitant burden than an exorbitant privilege for the US, and that Germany's policy exacts pressure upon peripheral Eurozone countries.
Pettis offers sound arguments against cultural stereotypes of countries alleged to be virtuous, hardworking and thrifty, as opposed to those stereotyped as being lazy and living beyond one's means.
The only complaint is the narrator A.T. Chandler really should have taken the very small effort to learn the basic rules of Pinyin and Chinese pronunciation, as almost every Chinese name is incorrectly pronounced, including Chongqing. This is the only let down in what is otherwise an excellent piece of work.
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- ENI STEPHEN
- 03-12-20
Exceptional clarity
This is by far the clearest write up on global economic conditions I've read. The writer is extremely knowledgeable and makes his facts compelling. Surely a 5 star for me
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