Abstract
As inevitable as death and taxes is the tendency for those behind to run faster, and for those up ahead to slow down. This tendency must inevitably result in a convergence of the First and Second Economic Worlds. We will discover that an economic empire may need the Second Economic World more than it may think
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
(Confucius, China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551–479 BCE)
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© 2010 Colin Read
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Read, C. (2010). Convergence. In: The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297074_27
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