Overcoming Indifference

by Schwab, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780814780084
• ISBN10: 0814780083
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

"This remarkable volume challenges political leaders to identify, analyze, and thereby begin to manage the transformations of a new era." --Bill Bradley, United States Senator from New Jersey The end of the Cold War did not, as some might have hoped, simplify the issues facing world leaders. Civil war, famine, overpopulation, chronic unemployment, and an exploding refugee problem continue to plague the world economy, to the point where we begin to wonder whether national boundaries can contain such crises, or whether the challenges that face the world are beyond the reach of the leaders we have elected. Has the increasing disparity between the haves and the have nots, between the knows and don't knows led to an unbridgeable gap between rich and poor peoples and rich and poor countries? Overcoming Indifferenceoffers contributions from Nobel Prize winners, statesmen, scholars and university professors, and chief executive officers of major industrial corporations. The contributors include such well-known and disparate thinkers as Elie Wiesel, Samuel P. Huntington, Michael Hammer, and Carl Sagan. Highlighting subjects as diverse as the new information society, methods of creating sufficient employment, the disintegration of previously held value systems, and the maintenance of global security in the post-Cold War world, the contributors, propose the best possible courses of action.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Contributors
Coping with the Disintegration of Value Systems
There Is No Such Thing as a Purely Material Crisis	p. 4
The Death of the Modern	p. 7
The Breakdown of the Family	p. 13
The Decline of the United States as an Inspiration to Emerging Nations	p. 16
The Positive Values of East Asia	p. 18
Pirates in Modern Society	p. 20
Toward an Ethic for the Twenty-First Century	p. 22
Religion and Modern Value Systems	p. 26
A Global Ethic as the Alternative to the Clash of Civilizations	p. 28
From Hierarchy to Cooperation	p. 32
The Need for Standards of Conduct in Government and Business	p. 35
The Need to Overcome Indifference	p. 37
Maintaining Global Security
The Changing Environment of World Security	p. 43
Inclusion/Exclusion: The New Dynamic in the World System	p. 48
The Need for a Strategy of Stabilization	p. 51
Are Nation-States Becoming Obsolete?	p. 54
The Transformation of War	p. 57
The Explosion of Crime and the Criminalization of War	p. 59
The Dilemma of "Law and Order" in the World at Large	p. 62
Security Policy in a World of Complexity	p. 66
International Peace-Keeping after the End of the Cold War	p. 70
Race and International Relations	p. 73
The Threat of Population Movements	p. 76
Drug Trafficking	p. 78
Democracy's Challenge	p. 81
Facing the New Inequalities
The New North-South Conflict	p. 91
The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Poorer	p. 95
Intergenerational Conflict	p. 98
The Increased Exclusion of Young People	p. 103
Overcoming Discrimination Against Women	p. 106
The New Decoupled Elite	p. 109
Ensuring Sustainability in an Overpopulated World
The Global Environment	p. 115
The Evolving Concept of Sustainability	p. 117
The Impact of the Demographic Transition	p. 120
Population Control: A Critical Factor in Economic Development	p. 124
Insufficient Grain and Food Resources	p. 127
Insufficient Water Resources	p. 130
Overcoming the "Cowboy Economy"	p. 135
Making Ecology and Economy Compatible	p. 139
The Greening of GATT: A Conflict of Visions	p. 141
Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment	p. 145
International Environmental Policy: From Formation to Implementation	p. 149
The Sustainability of Scientific Progress	p. 152
A Laborious Future	p. 155
Living in the New Information Society
The Challenges of the Information Technology Superindustry	p. 160
The Digital Revolution	p. 164
The Impact of the Information Glut	p. 170
The Gap Between the "Knows" and the "Don't Knows"	p. 174
Information Technology and Economic Success	p. 176
The Universal Information Infrastructure	p. 179
Global Village or Global Civilization?	p. 182
Keeping Pace with a Globalizing Economy
The Globalized Economy Is a Reality	p. 192
Abundant Human Resources and Technology	p. 196
Open Regionalism and Multilateral Liberalization	p. 200
Regionalism, Not Internationalism	p. 203
The "Backyard Strategy" of Old Economic Powers	p. 208
The Global Corporation and the Decline of Nation-States	p. 211
Competition and International Trade	p. 214
Global Shifts in Manufacturing and Services	p. 217
Global Competition on Rules and the Private Sector	p. 221
Integrating the World Economy: Economics Is Not Enough	p. 224
Trade Policy: From Shallow to Deep Integration	p. 229
Peace and Prosperity Require International Cooperation	p. 233
Integrating Asia
Asia: The New Center of the World Economy	p. 239
The East Asian Revolution	p. 242
The Resurgence of Asian Confidence	p. 245
Democratization in Asia	p. 248
Asia Has Come of Age	p. 251
A New East-West Relationship	p. 253
The Implications of China's Emergence	p. 257
Creating Sufficient Employment
The Increased Labor Supply in the World Economy	p. 264
The End of Industrial Era Employment	p. 267
Increased Growth Rates and Long-Term Structural Unemployment	p. 269
The Lack of Solidarity Between the Employed and Unemployed	p. 273
Permanent Education: A Must for Survival	p. 276
The Reduced Acceptability of Layoffs	p. 278
Ensuring National Policy-Making in a Global World
The Transformation of the World Economy Since 1980	p. 284
Globalization: Domestic Economic Policies Still Count	p. 288
Monetary Policy Cannot Do Everything	p. 292
The End of the Inflationary Era	p. 294
Foreign Exchanges; Markets Versus Policy	p. 296
The Conflict Between Globalization and Subsidiarity	p. 300
Death of the Welfare State?	p. 303
Making the State Efficient and Consumption Levels Sustainable	p. 309
The Expanding Scope of Privatization in Development	p. 313
The Rule of Law and Development	p. 316
The Need to Overcome Short-Term Problem Solving	p. 320
Reengineering the Corporation
A Shift in Global Economic Leadership	p. 326
Firms That Behave Like Dinosaurs Will Die Out	p. 328
The Transition to Lean Processes at the Firm Level	p. 330
Time Is No Longer Just Money	p. 335
How to Compete in the Twenty-First Century	p. 339
The Need for Innovative Strategies	p. 342
The Right Size for Global Companies	p. 345
The Need for Business Focus	p. 348
Conclusion	p. 353
Index	p. 359
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