NDN is pleased to announce the release of a new book by Dr. Rob Shapiro, Chair of our Globalization Initiative and former Under Secretary of Commerce from 1998 to 2001, entitled Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work. In the coming months, NDN will launch a series of events in New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC to mark the release of this important new book that seeks to predict what our world will look like in 2020.
In Futurecast, Shapiro draws upon his unique perspective on American and world affairs to chart the next dozen years of international and national progress. He explores the monumental forces that will shape the fates of the world’s major countries and their people: economic globalization, demographic aging of societies, the rise of America as a sole superpower, threats of terrorism and the promise of technology, and national struggles to maintain access to health care and secure energy sources without destroying the global environment.
We encourage our NDN friends to take a look at Futurecast, which is available for purchase on Amazon.com. The book has received glowing praise from reviewers, economists, and politicos alike. NDN President Simon Rosenberg called it "a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of how the global economy is changing in the early park of the twenty-first century," and Rolf Ekeus, the United Nations High Commissioner on National Minorities, has said that "Robert Shapiro understands the world and all of its complexity, from the rise and fall of nations to the problem of aging populations. No one is better equipped to tell us where we’re headed in the not-so-distant future."
Many of you may already be familiar with Shapiro's contributions to the NDN Globalization Initiative and national discourse on the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy. Shapiro has recently authored two seminal papers with NDN. In The New Landscape of Globalization, he presents a new analysis of how the fundamental dynamics of globalization affect U.S. growth, productivity, wages and job creation, health care and energy costs, and investment in education and human capital. Shapiro's most recent NDN paper, The Idea-Based Economy and Globalization, examines how and why U.S. companies and workers lead the world in developing and applying new intellectual property, and why these leads in innovation constitute a critical U.S. advantage in globalization.
Shapiro has also advised Michael Moynihan, NDN Fellow and Green Project Director, on his recent paper, Investing in Our Common Future: U.S. Infrastructure. This far reaching paper proposes a set of measures to restore our national political will and improve funding mechanisms to rebuild and advance our aging infrastructure. Moynihan calls upon the U.S. government to commit America to a series of environmental goals that would simultaneously green America’s infrastructure and drive important advances in environmental technologies.
We invite you to attend one of the upcoming events to mark the release of Futurecast. As part of NDN’s Bernard Schwartz Forums on Economic Policy, NDN President Simon Rosenberg will host events with Shapiro in San Francisco on Thursday, April 10 and New York on Monday, May 5 (details forthcoming). For more information on these events, please visit our website.
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