Great Boom Ahead: Your Guide to Personal & Business Profit in the New Era of Prosperity - Hardcover

Dent, Harry S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1562829432 ISBN 13: 9781562829438

Publisher: Hyperion, 1993

Synopsis

Predicting the decline of Japan and the re-emergence of the United States as the most powerful economy on the planet, the Harvard economist offers readers practical advice on taking advantage of the situation.

About this title

About the Author:

Harry Dent manages his own consulting firm, the H. S. Dent Company, and has spent the last ten years working with leading-edge companies. Since 1986 he has been researching and reporting on economic cycles. He received his M.B.A. as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School. He lives in Moss Beach, California, with his wife, Cee.

From Publishers Weekly:

Business consultant Dent here forecasts "a long unprecedented boom without inflation" to coincide in the late 1990s with the "baby-boom" generation's years of maximum lifetime spending. Economic trends are absolutely predictable, the author claims, as he interrelates productivity, politics and demography with interest rates, inflation, deficits and unemployment to show how a post-WW II "automobile economy" will yield presently to a global, U.S.-led, "customized" economy based on minicomputers and software under personalized entrepreneurial management. Analyzing industrial cycles from 1900 into the near future, Dent postulates four product-development stages: innovation (with only high-ticket buyers), a cost-reduction-growth boom, a competitive shake-out period and a "maturity boom" at popular prices. Identifying items entering this process (winter-sports duds yes, VCRs no) is the basis for business or investment success, according to Dent, whose scenario seems to assume stable conditions with no irrational financial panics, oil crises, world epidemics, Cold War revivals or aborted population trends. Fortune Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1562829432
• ISBN 13: 9781562829438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272