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标题：Book Review – Capitalism and Its Challenges Across Borders: Perspectives from the Asian, African and American Continents
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作者：Donovan A. McFarlane
期刊名称：Journal of Business Studies Quarterly
电子版ISSN：2152-1034
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：125-133
出版社：Journal of Business Studies Quarterly
摘要：Our modern century has been one blessed with all the realized dreams and accomplished ideas of many great minds from proposed economic, social, technological, and political ideologies to organized systems of resources and relationships shaping our world today as a global economy built on the muscles of trade and progress. One such great idea is capitalism which represents not only a social process of institutional organization and culture, but an economic and industrial system which has created wealth for both individuals and nations. It is no wonder why Adam Smith wisely called his prominent work "The Wealth of Nations." Capitalism has indeed created wealth for nations, but its challenges are equally evident across borders and in this twenty-chapter book penned by a diverse group of scholars from around the world, a country-region specific approach is taken to communicate how the challenges toward this process and system of social and economic arrangement are unfolding. With diverse perspectives from Asia, Africa, and the American continents, the authors communicate challenges specific to each country and region only to unveil a common thread of scholarly wisdom for our century: capitalism like any other social, ideological, and economic system has not yielded the great wealth, or rather, equal wealth for all nations and people, and understanding this might be the first step toward appreciating the vastness of the challenges we face and the future paths we must potentially travel in order to not only preserve, but to build upon our progress, while maintaining and sustaining our current levels of wealth, and survival and life