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The New Wealth Of Nations

by Surjit S. Bhalla
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The Power of Education Unleashed

Recommendation: This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the driving forces behind global development and inequality. Surjit S. Bhalla takes a fresh and compelling approach by highlighting the unprecedented growth in education and its impact on wealth distribution. Through a combination of research, anecdotes, and analysis, he unravels the complex relationship between education, technology, and economic progress. This book challenges conventional wisdom and offers thought-provoking insights that will reshape your understanding of the world today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The New Wealth Of Nations

by Surjit S. Bhalla
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ISBN: 9789386797025
Authors: Surjit S. Bhalla
Publisher: Simon and Schuster India
Date of Publication: 2017-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Education, Politics
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 37 readers)

Description

The emerging world was poor and illiterate just forty years ago. Today, over 70 per cent of the world’s middle class resides in the erstwhile poor countries; world income inequality is down to levels last observed in 1870; and there has been a large reduction in absolute poverty. What accounts for such rapid development and catch-up? Distinguished economist Surjit S. Bhalla’s The New Wealth of Nations offers a short answer—the spread of education. The very large increase in college graduates in the non-Western world, the growing educational achievements of women and the radical change in gender roles is critical to the understanding of current-day mega-trends. Indeed, this unprecedented development—which creates competition globally and lowers employment costs—is also why world inflation has been low and declining, for nearly twenty years. Here is a book that breaks new ground. Besides identifying the fallacies in anti-globalization rhetoric—voiced by Brexit and Trump supporters—it points out a major lacuna in current attempts to measure wealth inequality. Through a series of compelling arguments, anecdotes, studies, calculations, tables and charts, Bhalla emphatically reminds us that education is the new wealth and is, in fact, currently of a greater magnitude than financial wealth and much more equally distributed. Even while acknowledging the giant strides made by the developing world, The New Wealth of Nations investigates the downsides to the explosion of education and technology and why countries, rich and emerging, will have to explore options like basic income and negative income tax, so that a new welfare order, appropriate for the changed—and changing—21st century can emerge.
 

The Power of Education Unleashed

Recommendation: This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the driving forces behind global development and inequality. Surjit S. Bhalla takes a fresh and compelling approach by highlighting the unprecedented growth in education and its impact on wealth distribution. Through a combination of research, anecdotes, and analysis, he unravels the complex relationship between education, technology, and economic progress. This book challenges conventional wisdom and offers thought-provoking insights that will reshape your understanding of the world today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.