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| Introduction | |
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| The Plot | |
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| The Stage | |
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| The World Tour | |
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| The Curtain Rises | |
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| The World as a Stage | |
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| A Speedy Global Tour | |
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| Meanwhile in Ireland | |
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| Finland: In from the Cold | |
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| What Is the Global Economy? | |
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| Borderless | |
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| Invisible | |
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| Cyber-Connected | |
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| Measured in Multiples | |
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| Opening Night | |
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| The World AG | |
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| Leading the Dinosaur | |
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| The View From the Hotel: Detroit | |
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| Busting the Budget | |
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| Gates to the Future | |
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| 14 AG: China | |
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| Putting an "e" in Christmas | |
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| The End of Economics | |
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| Reinventing Economics | |
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| Economic Theories That Once Fitted the Times | |
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| New Fundamentals Require New Thinking | |
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| Turning the Taps On and Off | |
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| Deflation and the GDP Deflator | |
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| Interests Rates and Nest Eggs | |
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| Can Physics Help? | |
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| A Complex World | |
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| The Curve Ball | |
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| Oscillating Wildly | |
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| Paradigm II | |
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| The Power of Politics | |
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| The Difficulty of Changing Habits | |
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| Uncle Sam Goes Global | |
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| The New Economic Paradigm | |
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| Stage Directions | |
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| Playmakers | |
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| Finding Your Bearings on the Global Stage | |
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| How Nation-States Retard Economic Development | |
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| The Nation-State Fetish | |
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| Strong States | |
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| The Rise of the Region | |
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| Defining the Region-State | |
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| Indian Summers | |
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| Carried Away in China | |
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| Not All Regions Are Created Equal | |
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| Surprising China | |
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| Microregions | |
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| Flexibility | |
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| Size and Scale Matter, But Not in a Traditional Way | |
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| Regions Are Gaining Their Deserved Recognition | |
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| Practical Considerations | |
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| What a Successful Region Has to Do | |
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| Branding Places | |
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| The Will to Succeed | |
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| Organizing Regions | |
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| Other Unions | |
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| Free Trade Area or Fortress? | |
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| Platforms for Progress | |
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| Relentlessly Forward | |
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| Developing Technology Platforms | |
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| Language as Platform | |
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| English Inc | |
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| The Platform Profusion | |
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| Other Platforms | |
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| Out and About | |
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| Border Crossings | |
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| Technology: The Fairy Godmother | |
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| BPO: India as a Launch Pad | |
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| Dormant India | |
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| More Than a One-Country Wonder | |
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| BPO as a Platform | |
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| Home Sweet Home | |
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| Myths and Half-Truths | |
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| The View from India | |
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| Reaping the Benefits | |
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| BPO in a Borderless World | |
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| Breaking the Chains | |
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| The Portal Revolution | |
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| The Search | |
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| Have You Been Googled Recently? | |
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| Paying the Bill: The Payment Revolution | |
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| On the Rails | |
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| Delivery: The Logistics Revolution | |
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| The Arrival of the Micro Tag | |
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| Cool Chains and Fresh Food | |
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| Deliverance | |
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| Using Logistics to Solve Bigger Problems | |
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| For Dinner | |
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| The Script | |
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| Reinventing Government | |
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| Disappearing Power | |
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| Beyond Distribution | |
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| Size Matters | |
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| Downsizing and Resizing | |
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| A Vision for Change | |
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| The Japanese Vision | |
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| Mapping the Future | |
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| Visions Versus Mirages | |
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| Government Vision | |
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| Getting Noticed | |
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| Only Educate | |
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| Closing Down Distance | |
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| A New Role for Government | |
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| China: Governing the Ungovernable | |
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| Malaysia's Corridors of Power | |
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| Singapore's Appetite for Reinvention | |
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| Swedish Rhapsody | |
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| The Craic of the Irish | |
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| The Futures Market | |
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| All Change | |
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| The Technological Future | |
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| Technological Progress Means Death Is a Fact of Business Life | |
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| The Rise of VoIP and Its Impact on Telecoms | |
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| Join the March Early | |
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| The Personal Future | |
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| Embrace Leadership | |
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| Value Information and Innovation | |
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| Embrace Flexibility | |
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| The Corporate Future | |
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| The Homeless Corporation | |
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| Innovation, Inc | |
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| The Adaptive Corporation | |
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| Beyond Hierarchy | |
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| The Next Stage | |
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| The Regional Future | |
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| Hainan Island | |
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| Petropavlosk-Kamchatsily, Russia | |
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| Vancouver and British Columbia | |
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| Estonia | |
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| The Baltic Corner | |
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| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | |
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| Khabarovsk, Maritime (Primorye) Province and Sakhalin Island, Russia | |
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| S�o Paulo, Brazil | |
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| Kyushu, Japan | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Reopening the Mind of the Strategist | |
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| Beyond the Daydream | |
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| Index | |