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The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies
From Simon & Schuster, The End of the Nation State explores how capital, corporations, consumers, and communication are reshaping global markets.
Arguing that nation states are forfeiting their role in the global economy, the author contends that other forces have usurped economic power--capital, corporations, customers, communications, and currencies--and that natural economic zones or region states are emerging.
Arguing that nation states are forfeiting their role in the global economy, the author contends that other forces have usurped economic power--capital, corporations, customers, communications, and currencies--and that natural economic zones or region states are emerging.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Kenichi Ohmae
107 books73 followersa Japanese organizational theorist, management consultant, Former Professor and Dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and author, known for developing the 3C's Model
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June 16, 2017
This is another book that seems more useful for people in 2015 than when it is written. A lot of good information about changes in balance of power between Regional Economies and Nation States. Foreshadows some of the recent cases where local laws begin to trump national ones. Not quite the Anarchist wet dream that some people think it is from reading the title, but definitely worth the read.
September 5, 2019
For me this is a 5 star book. Others might not be interested.
Ohmae worked as an international business consultant for McKinsey, and as a business professor at UCLA.
He wrote this in the mid-90's. In the mid-10's I started thinking along the same lines, so there was a eureka moment for me when I read this.
The basic idea is that that nation-state is a creature of the past, particularly the 20th century. They're still around, but their governments are becoming increasingly zombified: running social programs on autopilot, and incapable of doing much that is economically constructive. Instead, we are transitioning to a world or regional economies: often groups of big metropolitan areas, frequently crossing national and sub-national borders. For example, the thriving part of China is mostly along the southeast coast, physically distant from Beijing, and frankly trying to stay unnoticed by them as much as possible. Alternatively, I live in a small city in rural Utah; almost everything here can be classified as orbiting the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City and its environs) or Las Vegas. We are torn.
Ohmae asserts that as this evolution goes on, national governments will become increasingly unresponsive to their citizenry, and more focused on areas not part of the regional economy layer. So, they focus on farmers, the poor, those without internet access, and so on. The rest of us, meanwhile, move to the big or bigger city, and are busy making as big a boatload of money as we can, all the while bemoaning governments that don't get what we do.
Ohmae worked as an international business consultant for McKinsey, and as a business professor at UCLA.
He wrote this in the mid-90's. In the mid-10's I started thinking along the same lines, so there was a eureka moment for me when I read this.
The basic idea is that that nation-state is a creature of the past, particularly the 20th century. They're still around, but their governments are becoming increasingly zombified: running social programs on autopilot, and incapable of doing much that is economically constructive. Instead, we are transitioning to a world or regional economies: often groups of big metropolitan areas, frequently crossing national and sub-national borders. For example, the thriving part of China is mostly along the southeast coast, physically distant from Beijing, and frankly trying to stay unnoticed by them as much as possible. Alternatively, I live in a small city in rural Utah; almost everything here can be classified as orbiting the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City and its environs) or Las Vegas. We are torn.
Ohmae asserts that as this evolution goes on, national governments will become increasingly unresponsive to their citizenry, and more focused on areas not part of the regional economy layer. So, they focus on farmers, the poor, those without internet access, and so on. The rest of us, meanwhile, move to the big or bigger city, and are busy making as big a boatload of money as we can, all the while bemoaning governments that don't get what we do.
April 17, 2020
A short book that presented some interesting ideas. Basically, how four forces capital, corporations, consumers and corporations were making national borders irrelevant and the nations state as an institution outdated. Suggested that the rise of several regional economies sch as the PRD, the maquiladora and southern california nexus suggested that borders were being usurped. On the path to globalisation much of what he was saying was unquestionably right; but it would be interesting to hear his opiions now given the events of the financial crisis, covid and rising nationalism.
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October 18, 2016Mediante las actividades de las corporaciones transnacionales, la mediación y ecualización de las tasas de ganancia fueron desvinculadas del poder de los Estados-nación dominantes. Más aún, la constitución de los intereses capitalistas unidos a los nuevos Estados-nación postcoloniales se desarrolló en el terreno de las propias transnacionales y tendió a formarse bajo su control. Mediante la descentralización de los flujos productivos, nuevas economías regionales y una nueva división mundial del trabajo comenzó a ser determinada.
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