Economic Success: Fate Or Destiny?: Values And Policies Across 12 Countries To Better Understand The World We Live In - Hardcover

Grandjean, Thomas; Tan, Chinhwee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811294941 ISBN 13: 9789811294945

Publisher: WSPC, 2024

Synopsis

The traditional rules-based system of the West, which has yielded peace dividends for many decades, now faces challenges from an emerging new world order. Building upon the themes introduced in Grandjean and Tan's Financial Times Readers' Best 2021 Summer Books, Values at the Core: How Human Values Contribute to the Rise of Nations, this book adopts a fresh perspective, examining historical precedents while charting a course for the future. Through accessible economic and social analyses of 12 nations, it offers insights into potential pathways forward.

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About the Author

Thomas Grandjean has worked in the commodities sector for the past 20 years. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and is a CFA charter holder. He has lived in the Middle East, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and currently resides in Singapore. He co-authored the book Values at the Core: How Human Values Contribute to the Rise of Nations.

ChinHwee Tan is Chairman of the Advisory Panel of Singapore's Energy Market Authority and SGTradex Services. Prior to that, he was Asia-Pacific CEO of a global Fortune 15 company for 8 years and was also Founding Asia Partner of one of the top three largest alternative investors in the world. He is a part of the special taskforce appointed by the Prime Minister's Office to recon-figure Singapore's economy and he sits on various private and public boards and committees, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Chin Hwee co-wrote the best-selling book Asian Financial Statement Analysis: Detecting Financial Irregularities and Values at the Core: How Human Values Contribute to the Rise of Nations, which was nominated to the Financial Times Readers' Best 2021 Summer Books list. He accepts pro bono cases from regulators across the globe. He is a chartered financial analyst and chartered accountant, and fought the battle to have the words "for the benefit of society" included in the charter as President of CFA Singapore. Together with his wife, he has engaged in social work for years, and he enjoys spending time with his three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811294941
• ISBN 13: 9789811294945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250