The Broad Perspective

North America along with other first world nations has now realized that as other nations aspire to develop along the same lines, serious implications on the ego-systems ability to sustain that type of growth will develop. With the end of the cold war and the demise of Marxist economies, capitalism is now the predominant economic system. Long associated with liberal democracy, it is also practiced within totalitarian societies like China. Many people believe that economic trade among nations is the basis to maintain ge…