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Global Economic Governance and the Challenge of Technological Revolution

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New technologies have profound impact on transformation of global economic governance. The chapter aims to grasp many dimensions of this impact that poses a big challenge for global economic governance. In identifying the ways beyond “gridlock” we must put particular attention to three trends that are analyzed in this chapter. First, new technologies dramatically change the nature of global economic problems, which the current institutions must follow and find up-to-date responses. Second, technological revolution offers many opportunities, but contributed to stronger competition and inequality in the world. Third, we need innovative forms of governance to manage delivery of global public goods that becomes even more difficult than in the past.

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  1. Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland

    Bartłomiej E. Nowak

  2. Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Artur Kluź

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Nowak, B.E., Kluź, A. (2020). Global Economic Governance and the Challenge of Technological Revolution. In: Rewizorski, M., Jędrzejowska, K., Wróbel, A. (eds) The Future of Global Economic Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35336-0_4

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