The Great Reckoning: How the World will Change in the Depression of the 1990s

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION: The End of the Postwar World. CHAPTER 1: The Megapolitics of Progress and Decline: Violence as a Catalyst and Consequence of Change. CHAPTER 2: The Information Revolution: The Megapolitics of the Future and the Constitutions of the Past. CHAPTER 3: America Follows in Britain’s Footsteps. CHAPTER 4: Japan Follows in America’s Footsteps. CHAPTER 5: The New Germany and Europe in the 1990s. CHAPTER 6: Latin America Takes Over Communism and Other Ironies of the End of the Cold War. CHAPTER 7: Muhammad Replaces Marx: The New North-South Division of World Politics. CHAPTER 8: Linear Expectations in a Nonlinear World: How the Telescope Led Us to Compute; How the Computer Can Help Us to See. CHAPTER 9: The Remaking of the Cosmopolitan Mind. CHAPTER 10: Drugs, Delusions, and the Imperial Culture of the Slums. CHAPTER 11: Deflation Ahead: Financial Fallout in the Atomic Age. CHAPTER 12: Clues from the Past: A Prologue to Depression. CHAPTER 13: When the Music stops: Why the Welfare State Could Collapse in the 1990s. CHAPTER 14: The Escape from High Costs: The Private Economy in the Slump of the 1990s. CHAPTER 15: Rational Living in an Age of Crisis. APPENDICES: 1. Techniques for Hedging Against Economic Crisis. 2. Strategic Investment and Other Services from James Dale Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg. NOTES ON SOURCES. INDEX.