This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of
prosperity recession and depression plotting them against centuries of important world
events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving
relationships between the global center and its periphery as well as current worldwide economic
upheavals and potential future developments. Central to this survey are successive waves of
industrial and later technological and cybernetic progress leading to the current era of
globalization and the changes of the roles of both Western powers and former minors players
however that will lead to the formation of the world order without a hegemon. Additionally the
authors predict what they term the Great Convergence the lessening of inequities between the
global core and the rest of the world including the wealth gap between First and Third World
nations. Among the topics in this ambitious volume: · Why politics is often omitted from
economic analysis. · Why economic cycles are crucial to understanding the modern geopolitical
landscape. · How the aging of the developed world will affect world technological and economic
future.< · The evolving technological forecast for Global North and South. · Where the U.S. is
likely to stand on the future world stage. Economic Cycles Crises and the Global Periphery
will inspire discussion and debate among sociologists global economists demographers global
historians and futurologists. This expert knowledge is necessary for further research
proactive response and preparedness for a new age of sociopolitical change.
