The Public Wealth of Nations (eBook)

How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth
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2016 | 2015
XIV, 230 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-51986-3 (ISBN)

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The Public Wealth of Nations - Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster
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Two leading economists argue that publicly owned commercial assets need to be taken out of the control of politicians. This radical, reforming book could lead to the creation of entirely new departments in the world's major banks, improve the fabric of democratic institutions across the globe, and increase global living standards.
We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don't worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the largest pool of wealth in the world - a global total that is much larger than the world's total pensions savings, and ten times the total of all the sovereign wealth funds on the planet - is still comprised of commercial assets that are held in public ownership. If professionally managed, they could generate an annual yield of 2.7 trillion dollars, more than current global spending on infrastructure: transport, power, water, and communications. Based on both economic research and hands-on experience from many countries, the authors argue that publicly owned commercial assets need to be taken out of the direct and distorting control of politicians and placed under professional management in a 'National Wealth Fund' or its local government equivalent. Such a move would trigger much-needed structural reforms in national economies, thus resurrect strained government finances, bolster ailing economic growth, and improve the fabric of democratic institutions. This radical, reforming book was named one of the "e;Books of the Year"e;.by both the FT and The Economist.

Dag Detter is an advisor to investors in Europe and Asia, specialized in identifying under-performing high potential assets. As President of Stattum, the Swedish government holding company, and a Director at the Ministry of Industry, he led the first deep-rooted transformation of state commercial assets. He has worked extensively as an investment banker and advisor within the corporate, real estate and financial sector in Asia and Europe.Stefan Fölster is The Managing Director of the Reform Institute (a market-oriented think tank in Stockholm with a focus on innovative reforms). He was previously the Chief Economist for the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. He has authored many articles and books, for example the recent Renaissance of Reforms published jointly by the IEA and Timbro.

1. What can public wealth do for you? 2. Don't rock the boat and the hand that feeds you - the cost of poor management 3. How state run business can ruin the economy and politics 4. The size and potential of public wealth 5. Attempts to reform management of public wealth 6. Active owner or Privatise - Swedish and Asian pioneers vs Thatcher 7. Monetising yields value, and improves democracy as well 8. The anatomy of National Wealth Funds 9. Strategies for creating value 10. We all want to build roads now but can we afford it? 11. How politicians can become consumer advocates instead of quasi-capitalists

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.2.2016
Zusatzinfo XIV, 230 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Finanzierung
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Logistik / Produktion
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte Assets • Economic Growth • economy • growth • Management • nations • Wealth • Wealth of Nations
ISBN-10 1-137-51986-X / 113751986X
ISBN-13 978-1-137-51986-3 / 9781137519863
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