Title: Economic Determinism at its best?!
Product review: Kenichi Ohmae's 'End of the nation state' is a short essay on how the knowledge-driven economy is rapidly rendering the nation state irrelevent. No longer the natural business unit it will become a thing of the past. Alas, if only it were so simple. Ohmae is prone to repetetiveness, and worse still, he turns a blind eye to any non-economic factors in play. His book can be regarded a typical representative of the globalization-school, along with the inevitble economic determinism. NO, man does not live for the mall and the multinational alone! On the positive side is that at least Ohmae tries to come up with an alternative for the nation state, so lacking in many other books on this subject. But here too, the idea is one-sided and too wide-ranging to convince. This book might enthuse the fans of globalization, but it is unlikely to convert the skeptical.
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