"For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: globalization will continue to spread, trade is the engine of growth, and economic power is moving from West to East. But what if everything is about to change? What if it has already begun to change, but we just haven't noticed? In this brilliantly original book, Finbarr Livesey dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. We live in a fast-changing global economic landscape in which the rules are being rewritten--at once a challenge and an opportunity for companies and countries alike"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Go east, young man? -- From putting out to getting out -- "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," or how we will make -- All hail our robot overlords -- Getting from A to NA in a hilly world -- Manufacturing the environment -- Looking through the other end of the telescope -- Mapping the fracture between the physical and the digital -- The changing politics of manufacturing -- Epilogue : the post world.