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Lays out a plan for how economic growth can be sustained even in the face of declining resources and climate change
Presents a novel model of production, distribution, consumption and disposal that is sustainable to both economic growth and environmental stewardship
Jack Buffington combines experience at the highest level of the business world with the research he conducts at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology in this groundbreaking volume
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume models a 21st century supply chain: one that uses technology that leads to the power of the individual, not larger organizations. Author Jack Buffington explains how in the near future, each of us will be a “prosumer” in a peer-based economy of micro-level manufacturing with little waste and infinite customization.
There are two primary schools of thought in regard to the world economy of the future; from one side is a belief that economic growth can continue in perpetuity, driven upon a cheap and plentiful energy supply. From the other point of view is a perspective that economic growth will soon end has due to a lack of cheap and plentiful oil, too much financial debt, and a damaged environment that cannot withstand more growth. Frictionless Markets proposes a third way: a 21st century model based upon an economic calculus that does assume that fossil fuels are rapidly depleting and the environment is being damaged, but does not assume that this means an end to growth, but rather, a beginning of opportunities. Frictionless Markets tells the story of why and how frictionless markets will exist by the year 2030.
Dr. Jack Buffington is both a supply chain professional for one of the largest consumer products companies in the world, and a researcher in biotechnology and supply chain at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Authors and Affiliations
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Industrial Marketing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Jack Buffington
About the author
Dr. Jack Buffington is both a supply chain professional for one of the largest consumer products companies in the world, and a researcher in biotechnology and supply chain at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. From this theoretical and practical experience, Buffington develops a supply chain system model that designs, markets, procures, manufactures, distributes, consumes, and reuses eco-friendly materials in replacement for our industrial era that has not had such considerations for hundreds of years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frictionless Markets
Book Subtitle: The 21st Century Supply Chain
Authors: Jack Buffington
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19536-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19535-3Published: 06 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36804-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19536-0Published: 15 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 99
Topics: Sustainable Development, Operations Management, Popular Science in Nature and Environment