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Brazil Is the New America How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.08.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

352

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23,5/15,7/2,3 cm

Gewicht

657 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-00663-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.08.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

352

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/2,3 cm

Gewicht

657 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-00663-4

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Brazil Is the New America
  • Preface xiii
     
    Acknowledgments xv
     
    Chapter 1 The World in 2050 1
     
    A Preview of the Future 2
     
    A Decrease in Productive Capacity 5
     
    Squandering Prosperity 9
     
    Chapter 2 The Original America Is the New Brazil 11
     
    The Country of the Future 14
     
    The Origins of America 20
     
    The Mythic Brazil 24
     
    A Difficult Dream to Realize 26
     
    Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil? 28
     
    Chapter 3 How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World 35
     
    The Impact of Topography 36
     
    Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths 45
     
    Three Radical Changes 53
     
    Predatory Government
     
    Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt
     
    Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies
     
    Chapter 4 Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies 67
     
    Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity 68
     
    Coal and Adam Smith 69
     
    Going Forward or Backward?
     
    The Phases of Extracting Energy 73
     
    Phase One: An Abundance of Wood
     
    Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal
     
    Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry
     
    The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I 75
     
    Peak Oil and Declining Money 79
     
    Declining Energy and Systemic Collapse
     
    The Real Symptoms of Peak Oil
     
    The Competition for Prosperity 84
     
    Expensive Oil Remains
     
    A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?
     
    The SS Great Britain Sails Again 87
     
    "Yes! We Have No Bananas"
     
    Chapter 5 Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age 91
     
    The Dynamics of Weather 93
     
    Not Wrong, but Early 96
     
    Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment 100
     
    The Next Little Ice Age 104
     
    "The Dog That Did Not Bark" 114
     
    Putting Two and Two Together 117
     
    A New Maunder Minimum 124
     
    Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution 125
     
    Chapter 6 Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the Economy 131
     
    How Debtism Changed the World 132
     
    Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You 142
     
    The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush 144
     
    Worse than the Great Depression 149
     
    The Collapse of the Boom 156
     
    Chapter 7 "Rome" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy 159
     
    Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency 160
     
    The Destruction of the Middle Class
     
    Pre-Industrial Growth Rates
     
    Are You Ready for Taxes to Double?
     
    Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of "Rome" 167

    The New Berlin Wall
     
    Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants 172
     
    Chapter 8 The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World 175
     
    You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship 178
     
    Stopping Runaway Spending 181
     
    Important Lessons from Hyperinflation 185
     
    Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen
     
    U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure
     
    The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis
     
    How Brazilians Became the New Scots
     
    Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style
     
    America's $104 Trillion Problem
     
    Brazil and the Taylor Rule
     
    Leverage and Growth 195
     
    GDP Gains Based on Income Growth 196
     
    Chapter 9 A Bounty of Water and Land: Brazil as History's First Tropical Superpow