Inside the global economy

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In publishing a “practical guide” to the global economy, American economic researcher Andrew Vonnegut provides a toolset for better understanding the ways in which it is prone to be influenced by “big shifts.” According to Vonnegut, such shifts can be demographic or ecological, but can also involve issues related to inequality, information technology, and emerging markets. Viewing some or all of these shifts through a unified global economy lens can beneficial in analyzing the present geo-economy or preparing for future movements in it. The book would be  of interest to readers in countries that cannot shape the world to satisfy their particular  national economic interests—a reality faced by most, if not all. Other approaches often use individual (national) economies as their starting point and then model the global system as interactions among them. Vonnegut considers the global economy as a whole, not simply a sum of national parts, providing a