Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Back to the Future? 27
Chapter 2 Who Are Those Guys? 55
Chapter 3 To Armageddon and Back 89
Chapter 4 Atomic Clouds of Footloose Funds 123
Chapter 5 After the Crisis: Catharsis or Chaos? 157
Chapter 6 Older and Wiser: Demographic and
Technological Challenges 205
Chapter 7 The Climate Change Catch–22 261
Chapter 8 Who Will Inherit the Earth? 299
Notes 341
Index 353
GEORGE MAGNUS is Senior Economic Adviser at UBS InvestmentBank, London. Previously, he was Chief Economist at UBS; he hasheld similar positions with Union Bank of Switzerland and SGWarburg. George Magnus is well-known and respected as a publiccommentator on the long-term consequences of the financial crisis.His first book The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changingthe Global Economy and Our World was published by Wiley in2008. He lives, works and writes in London, is married and has fourchildren.
a useful corrective tosome of the more breathless and overenthusiastic tracts onChina s inevitable path to world domination. (Management Today, Novemberm 2010). Magnus takes an epic sweep of theemerging economies- from China and India to Turkey and EasternEurope. (Wharf, November 2010). a considered view of the advances ofChina, India and other emerging economies . (FinancialTimes, November 2010). Magnus's overarching argument isthat China still lacks the organisations and institutions thataccept the key to technological innovation. (Reuters.com, November 2010). blow-by-blow account of the globalscene today his [Magnus s] crystal ball presentssurprising conclusions. (BMI Voyager, April2011). worthreading . (Survival, June2011).
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