The recent global financial crisis illustrates how fragile economic globalization is and how vulnerable all global citizens are to economic events outside their own country. Indeed, global economics is more important for national economic growth than domestic policies. Globalization and change interact and shape the economic environment for citizens and enterprises. These essays represent observations made over a ten-year period which attempt to analyze what is happening, why it happened and the impact on global and national economic growth. Readers may not find solutions or answers to all the perplexing events in the world, but they will gain a better understanding of how global politics and economics work, and in some cases, how they should but actually do not work.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword (32 KB)
Part 1: Future Global Trends (126 KB)
Contents:
- Future Global Trends
- Economic Globalization
- Economic Integration
- Global Financing
- Asia in the World
Readership: Students and academics interested in economics/finance and political studies; government ministries and diplomats; general readers interested in current affairs.
“A timely and insightful analysis of the global political economy. Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller draws on his rich experience to explicate the dangers and opportunities of globalization.”
Glen S Fukushima
President & CEO
Airbus Japan
“Economic and political interdependence becomes an important facet of our world today. The challenges facing society, nations, firms, and the ordinary citizens as they confront, adapt, and meet the banner of globalization are all played out and discussed in this highly analytical book. Retired ambassador, diplomat, and academician, Professor Moeller has incisively collected his thoughts on these issues displaying the richness of his ideas, laying the background, and showing the way forward. A must read for anyone interested in the global political economy!”
Euston Quah
Professor and Head of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Editor, Singapore Economic Review
“There are a handful of international forces that will shape our world this century and there are only a handful of thinkers who can integrate these trends and explain their consequences. Joergen Moeller tackles the rise of China and India, Europe's role in this new Asia, the socio-political impact of globalization, the potential structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy, and the need for an international political culture based on mutual respect and tolerance — and he does so with cogency and clarity. For people who enjoy thinking about the big picture, at times penetrating, at times iconoclastic, and at times just unsettling, this is your book.”
Frank Lavin
former Under Secretary, US Department of Commerce
former US Ambassador to Singapore
“Without question the author has given readers a book that's well worth reading. Its contents are far from trivial and could be instructive to leaders and citizens who strive to bring about a global civil society wherein the central concern is for human well-being, peace, security and stability … The book is well written, substantive, challenging and extensively researched. In this reviewer's judgement, it should not be missed by university students, their teachers as well as policy-makers and general readers.”
ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller joined the Royal Danish Foreign Ministry in 1968. From 1989 to 1997 he was State-Secretary, and from 1997 to 2005 he served as Ambassador to Singapore and Brunei; from 2002 he also served as Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand. He has written 36 books dealing with global politics and economics and is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ISEAS, as well as Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University & Copenhagen Business School. Professor Møller has contributed to the global debate over many years and in 2000 Professor Andrew Moravcsik of Princeton University labeled him ‘one of our most creative international thinkers’.
