TY - BOOK AU - Steingart,Gabor TI - The war for wealth: the true story of globalization or why the flat world is broken SN - 9780071545969 (acidfree paper) AV - HF1359 .S736513 2008 U1 - 303 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Globalization KW - International economic relations KW - International relations KW - Wealth KW - Globalisierung KW - swd KW - Sozioökonomischer Wandel KW - Verteilungskampf KW - Abwehr KW - Westliche Welt KW - Asien N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index; Rethinking globalization : a question of survival -- Europe over all : the dress rehearsal for globalization -- The American century : a final appraisal -- New rivals : the Asian challenge -- The flat world is broken -- Aggressive Asia : a threat to world peace? -- The United States of the West : it's a journey, not a destination -- Interview with Nobel Prize winner Paul A. Samuelson: "The market has no brain." N2 - Surveys the consequences of globalization and explains how the global economy and the policies of other nations are significantly compromising the western world's quality of life and standard of living ER -