The Age of Oversupply

Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy

Daniel Alpert

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Portfolio Press
20 November 2013

Economics & Business; Development economics

Why Western capitalism is broken and how the US can recover its global economic leadership status

The invisible hand of capitalism is broken.

Economic and political forces are preventing markets from correcting themselves. Governments and central banks across the developed world have tried every tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish. How did we get here, and how can advanced nations prosper once more?

In this bold call to arms, economic policy expert Daniel Alpert argues that oceans of cheap global labour and capital have shackled the economies of the West. Distracted by a technology boom and debt bubble, they failed to respond to the challenges unleashed by the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and beyond.

Global oversupply and the lack of domestic growth are intertwined, Alpert shows. We cannot understand the housing bubble and the financial crisis without appreciating how the rise of emerging nations distorted the economies of rich countries. And we can't chart a path for growth without recognizing that many of these forces are still at work.

The Age of Oversupply offers a bold, fresh approach to fixing the West's economic woes. It also delivers a vigorous challenge to proponents of austerity economics.

By: Daniel Alpert
Imprint: Portfolio Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9780241003794
ISBN 10: 0241003792
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 November 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Alpert is a founding managing partner of investment bank Westwood Capital, LLC. He is widely quoted in the business media and was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary Inside Job. Alpert is also a fellow of the Century Foundation, the United States' oldest policy think tank. He lives in New York.

Reviews for The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy

A book that will make you think. Alpert does a magnificent job of analyzing the deeper underlying causes of our economic troubles -- Liaquat Ahamed, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance An elegantly argued explanation of the anemic stagnation that has followed the recent financial crisis -- Nouriel Roubini, author of Crisis Economics