How Asia Can Shape The World

Download or read book How Asia Can Shape the World written by J. Ørstrøm Møller and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next twenty-five years. Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems, but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. The challenge opens the doors for an Asian economic model based on shifting of productivity for the individual to groups, ecological productivity instead of economic productivity, and a reversal to traditional Asian values - less materialistic than Western values. A new paradigm for economic thinking emerges to replace the one launched in the West 200 years ago.