"Technological progress and globalization have generated indisputable benefits, but also relevant costs, such as growing economic inequality, economic fluctuations and financial instability. Mainstream economics has usually considered these costs as temporary, evenly distributed and more than...

Preface / Liz Mohn, Wolfgang Schüssel -- Introduction / Malte C. Boecker -- I. Asia's potential as a world power. Demographic dynamics of Asia / Carl Haub -- Asia's economic and technological outlook / Horst Siebert -- Asia, Europe and the global power balance / Paul Kennedy -- II. Asia's...