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

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.08.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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352

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

Gewicht

657 g

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1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-00663-4

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

07.08.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

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
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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 Superpower 199

    Brazil and Water 199

    Sustainability

    A World of Water Shortages

    Renewable Water

    Brazil Reinvents Agriculture 206

    The New Breadbasket of the World Diversification

    Irrigation

    A History of Small and Large Farms

    A Stunning Increase

    Chapter 10 Reversing the Gap: Brazil as the World's Emerging Energy Superpower 221

    The Zero Sum Growth Game 222

    Grim Prospects 226

    Pulling the Plug 228

    Submerging Economies 231

    Rio Is the New Houston 233

    Leading the Way in Renewable Energy 238

    Let There Be Light 242

    Declining Power after an Energy Transition 244

    Chapter 11 Demographic Turbocharge: Brazil's Coming Decades of Miracle Growth 247

    China Takes a Dive? 251

    Brazil's Demographic Bonus 253

    A Laboratory for New Products 257

    A Real Cultural Melting Pot 258

    Chapter 12 Back to the Future: What Could Go Wrong 261

    Is Brazil Following the United States

    Too Closely? 262

    Weight 264

    Effects on Health Care 268

    Diversity Issues 270

    Infrastructure 274

    Corruption 277

    Bureaucracy 278

    Custo Brasil 281

    Credit 284

    Chapter 13 On the Outside Looking In: Making the Move toward Prosperity 289

    Conclusions 290

    Healthcare

    Education

    Military

    "Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Why Not Use Your Eyes?" 298

    Coming Soon: Financial Repression 299

    "Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Unpaid Taxes" From the Empire Settlement Act to Unsettling Choices 302

    Looking at BRICs 304

    Untapped Resources

    Climate: Brazil Stays Warm in the Little Ice Age

    U.S. Farmers Lead the Migration to Brazil

    Making the Move 308

    About the Author 311

    Index 313