The global economy as you've never seen it : 99 ingenious infographics that put it all together

THIS EBOOK IS FOR TABLETS AND OTHER LARGE SCREENS. Please use pan and zoom to explore the detailed infographics.An ingeniously conceived tour of the global economy and all its key components, illuminated one by one in 99 large-scale, full-color infographicsThe economy is a complex, world-spanning, layer-upon-layer-upon-layer behemoth: One could argue that almost every aspect of our lives is connected to the realms of business and finance. And yet few of us truly understand it—even the world's foremost economists can't seem to agree on how it runs.The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It presents 99 brilliant infographics that everyone can understand. From start-ups to monopolies, from trade agreements to theory, author Thomas Ramge and infographic specialist Jan Schwochow bring every facet of the economic web to life.Economics connects us all, from what we buy, to how we buy it, who made it, and where. See the economy differently—and the world. Title page Copyright Introduction Contents I. THE INDIVIDUAL The Employee How We Work The Boss The Boss Is There a Degree in Bossology? BS at the Office The Consumer Wanting and Having The Path to a Purchase Everything Super at the Market? The Poor The Poor The Rich The Rich Work, Money, and Happiness Flowwwwwwww! Battle to the Top, Then Yoga II. THE COMPANY Manufacturing The Company Headquarters How Is a Car Made? Investments Going Public Profits Clash of Key Indicators Business Models Loss, Gain, Value Chain Paint Your Business Model The Product Top vs. Flop Product Biographies The Organization Getting Organized The Team The Team Is the Star Finances Counting Beans The Customers Funneled In! The "Buy It Now" Buttons in Your Head It Ain't What You Say, It's the Way You Say It . . . III. THE NATIONAL ECONOMY The US Economy Let's Add It All Up . . . To Have and Have Not The State and Politics The Economic Mixing Table Big Spender Growth Money Flows It's Growing! Competition Healthy Competition Trusts & Monopolies Money The History of Money How Much Money Is Good for Us? How Is Money Created? The Labor Market Who Does What, and If So, How Many? How Old Is Our Nation? Prosperity Measuring Prosperity IV. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Global Production The Jeans Business Who Delivers the Goods? Who Earns the Money? . . . and in the End the Swiss Always Win The GDP Time Machine World Trade It's (Turned Into) a Small World Free Trade? The Export Games Illegal Global Markets The Illegal Global Market Compulsory Labor in the 21st Century The Institutions Global Economic Administration The Global Financial Market Multiplying Money The Big Mac Index Multinationals and Brand Names Is Bigger Really Better? Bestsellers Water Wars Talent Distribution and Labor Migration Leaving on a Jet Plane . . . Coming and Going V. THEORY Aristotle Adam Smith Karl Marx Frederick Winslow Taylor John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Amartya Sen VI. ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES Sustainability Sustaining Sustainability Resources Rare Earths, and Common Ones It Burns! The Value of Water Farming and the Food Industry What Fills the Most Bellies Environmental Consciousness Green Genetic Engineering Business Ethics Transparency Greenwashing Waste and Recycling The Waste System Environmental Economic Policy Emissions Trading Green Tech Growing Green Tech VII. THE FUTURE Megatrends Exploring the Future Written in the Stars Innovation Yesterday's Future How Do New Things Enter the World? That Was My Idea! How Do You Measure Innovation? The World Is Not Enough The Everything Company Digitalization The Next Unicorn Nimble David, Sluggish Goliath? Automation Smart Factory Industry 1.0 to 4.0 Strong AI Weak AI Smarter and Smarter The Don't-Be-Evil Empire How Big Is Big Data? The Future of Work The Future of Work The Future of Finance Banking without Banks? Bitcoin Blockchain Saving the Best for Last Make Something . . . . . . Mr. Robot! APPENDIX Sources Index Acknowledgments "The goal of this book is to inspire you to explore the complex world of the economy. We want to provide understandable and entertaining access to it through the medium of the infographic. The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It is for everyone who finds it impossible to work their way through the business section of The New York Times each morning and who missed--or slept through--their Business and Econ 101 classes. Our expedition through the economic world begins with the smallest economic unit: the individual. Then, the perspective becomes progressively broader with each chapter. We'll take a look at companies, the national economy, and the world economy. We'll seek insights from the greatest minds of economic theory, and then think about how--if we avoid the dangers of greed--profits can be made without throwing the planet off balance and destroying the environment. Finally, we'll look into the future and speculate about new ways of thinking and new technologies that might make possible a new economy focused on the human being. This is no easy undertaking. The economic world is not only complex, but also enormous. At each way station of our journey, we have tried to translate into graphic form a broad spectrum of terms, contexts, concepts, and facts that seem essential to us. At many points we had to make decisions and accept trade-offs. The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It cannot, therefore, claim to be comprehensive--like an atlas that fully maps out Earth. Instead, the aim of our book is to arouse curiosity about intellectual terrain that is worth further exploration, not only because this territory is home to so many fascinating stories that have excited us--a journalist and a graphic designer--for two decades; but because, above all, economics connects everyone around the world. And that's precisely why it's so important to understand the global economy, and to see it as you've never seen it before."--Introduction An ingeniously conceived tour of the global economy and all its key components, deconstructed piece by piece in 99 illuminating, full-color infographics The economy is a complex, world-spanning, layer-upon-layer-upon-layer behemoth; one could argue that theres almost nothing in our lives that isnt in some way connected to the worlds of business and finance. And yet few of us truly understand iteven the worlds foremost economists cant seem to agree on how it runs. The Global Economy as Youve Never Seen It shows how the economy works in 99 brilliantly illustrated infographics that everyone can understand. From labor to business to finance to theory, and from the things you buy and the way you buy them to the way everything is made, infographic specialist Jan Schwochow and author Thomas Ramge bring to life every facet of the economic web that makes the world go. With its endlessly varied, information-rich visuals, this book invites us to see the economy differentlyand to finally understand how it all fits together. This book explored the complex world of the economy through the medium of the infographic. Beginning with the smallest economic unit, the individual, then, moving progressively broader to companies, the national economy, and the world economy. The aim of the book is not to be comprehensive, but to arouse curiosity about intellectual terrain that is worth further exploration