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1 Online-Ressource (219 Seiten)
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9783030920845
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone -- Introduction -- This Time Might Be Different -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Innovation: Engine of Economic Growth (and Employment) -- Cowboys Versus Astronauts -- Malthus and the Constraints on Economic Growth -- From Nomadism to Sedentism: Innovation and the Neolithic Revolution -- From the Plough to Genetic Engineering: Innovations and Growth in Agriculture -- From the Wheel to the Blockchain: Innovations and Growth in Trade -- Steam Engine, Electricity, Computers and the Internet: Industrial Revolutions and Economic Growth -- Financial Innovation, the Transmission Belt Between Technological Change and Economic Growth -- Disruptive and Sustaining Innovation -- Radical and Incremental Innovation -- Bibliography -- 2 The Technological Revolution: The Rise of Machines -- Advanced Robotics -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Driverless Car -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Internet of Things (IoT) -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Big Data -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Quantum Computing -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Cloud Storage and Computing -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Augmented and Virtual Reality -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Blockchain -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials -- What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Biotechnology
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What Is It? -- The Big Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Other Innovations, Technologies and High-Potential Sectors -- Bibliography -- 3 The Technological Revolution: Professions at Risk and New Jobs -- New Technologies: A Tsunami Affecting All Sectors and (Almost) All Professions -- Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Forestry and Mining -- Manufacture -- When Automation Creates Jobs: Reshoring and Near-Shoring -- Reshoring as a Source of Quality Employment: The Italian Case -- Transport (of People and Goods) -- Trade and Sales -- Travel, Tourism, Hospitality, Catering -- Banking, Insurance and Consulting -- Medicine, Health and Personal Care -- Office Work, Freelancing and Journalism -- Web Services -- School and Training -- Start-Ups and New Entrepreneurial Activities -- New Jobs and Skills -- Bibliography -- 4 Constraints to Economic Growth: Sustainability, Happiness and Other Issues -- Economic Growth and Sustainability -- Sustainable Growth and the Environment -- Global Warming Changes the Economy, Finance and Geopolitics -- Sustainable Growth and Food Resources -- Sustainable Growth and Energy Sources -- Sustainable Growth, Demographic and Generational Balance -- Growth and Socio-Institutional Sustainability -- Growth and Sustainable Demand: The Risk of Secular Stagnation -- Alternatives to the Traditional Growth Model -- Economic Growth, Well-Being and Happiness -- Bibliography -- 5 New Jobs or Technological Unemployment? -- Economic Growth, the Transmission Belt Between Innovation and Work -- This Time May Be Different -- The Risk of Jobless Growth -- High Frequency of Disruptive Innovations -- Penetration Rate and Pervasiveness of Innovations -- The Challenge to Intellectual Work -- Technological Revolution and Globalization: An Unprecedented Combination -- Detachment Between Presence and Location
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New Geography of Work: "Open" Countries Win -- Polarization of the Labour Market and Increasing Wage Inequality -- Decrease in the Value Placed on Work -- Crisis of the Man-Work Relationship -- Sense of Uncertainty, Social Anxiety and Political Distrust -- Inadequate Leadership and Poor Vision -- Bibliography -- 6 Many Proposals, Few Resources: Difficult Choices for the Future of Labour -- Work for Machines, Idleness (and Universal Basic Income) for Humans -- Work Less, Work for All -- Work for Free, Work for All -- Job Guarantee -- The Third Path: Intelligent Cohabitation and Labour-Intensive Professions -- The Third Path: Collaboration Between Humans and Machines -- Redistribution Mechanisms of Produced Wealth -- Guaranteed Minimum Income and Negative Taxation -- Universal Dividend -- No Robotization Without Taxation -- Web Tax -- Digital Dividend: The Value of Data -- Public Research: Collective Risk and Private Profit -- Bibliography -- 7 Human Beings at the Centre as "Shareholders" of Development -- Sustainability Goal: Scrapping or Adjusting the Traditional Growth Model? -- A Pragmatic Approach to Sustainability: The Cost-Benefit Analysis -- A "Gentle Push" Towards Sustainability -- Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility and New Consumer Awareness -- The Human-Machine Relationship: Substitution or Collaboration? -- An Old Dilemma: Assembly-Line Worker or Thinking Professional? -- New Rules -- Employment Policies, Job Protection and New Welfare -- Investing in Knowledge: School and Training to Reduce the Skills Gap -- Investing in Knowledge: The Role of Business in Training Human Capital -- New Distribution (or Pre-Distribution) Model -- Free and Compulsory Education -- Universal Loan -- Endowment Capital -- Strengthening the Economic System -- Bibliography -- 8 Ye Were not Made to Live with the Virus: Lessons from the Pandemic
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Black Swan or Foreseeable Event? -- Sailing in Uncharted Waters -- Is It the End of Globalization? -- Riding the Wave of Change Without Being Overwhelmed by It -- No Growth Without Health Sustainability -- A More Prudent Globalization -- Respect for the Environment and Sustainable Growth -- Solidarity Networks, the Role of the State in the Economy and International Cooperation -- Innovation, Work and Social Sustainability -- What's Past Is Prologue -- Bibliography -- Conclusions: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Bibliography -- Index
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Magnani, Marco Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783030920838
Sprache:
Englisch
