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<p>Acknowledgments vii</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>Chapter 1 Back to the Future? 27</p> <p>Chapter 2 Who Are Those Guys? 55</p> <p>Chapter 3 To Armageddon and Back 89</p> <p>Chapter 4 Atomic Clouds of Footloose Funds 123</p> <p>Chapter 5 After the Crisis: Catharsis or Chaos? 157</p> <p>Chapter 6 Older and Wiser: Demographic and</p> <p>Technological Challenges 205</p> <p>Chapter 7 The Climate Change Catch–22 261</p> <p>Chapter 8 Who Will Inherit the Earth? 299</p> <p>Notes 341</p> <p>Index 353</p>

<b>GEORGE MAGNUS</b> is Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank, London. Previously, he was Chief Economist at UBS; he has held similar positions with Union Bank of Switzerland and SG Warburg. <p>George Magnus is well-known and respected as a public commentator on the long-term consequences of the financial crisis. His first book <i>The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World</i> was published by Wiley in 2008. He lives, works and writes in London, is married and has four children.</p>

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