{"product_id":"along-the-path-of-globalization-what-continues-to-break-as-the-world-moves-forward-9798241335982","title":"Along the Path of Globalization: What Continues to Break as the World Moves Forward","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lucien Hart\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Description\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a century, industrial capacity formed the quiet foundation of national stability. Production, innovation, community life, and security developed together, reinforcing one another in ways that required little explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines how that foundation was gradually dismantled-not through sudden collapse, but through a series of strategic assumptions that treated production as interchangeable, distance as manageable, and markets as neutral correctors. What followed was not merely economic change, but a structural shift: innovation separated from manufacturing, enterprises weakened under price warfare, supply chains stretched beyond national control, and families asked to absorb risks once carried by institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than arguing from ideology, this book traces an industrial arc-from 19th-century integration, through wartime proof of capacity, to postwar confidence, globalization, and eventual fragility. It focuses on systems rather than personalities, on structural consequences rather than intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central judgment is clear: efficiency gains disguised structural fragility. Markets optimized for cost, not survival. Global integration increased complexity, delay, and irreversibility-conditions incompatible with national resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecoupling is presented here not as emotion or retreat, but as a strategic act: a necessary withdrawal from a system that no longer serves stability. This is not a policy manual, nor a forecast of crisis. It is a record of judgment-written at a moment when the signs were already visible, though not yet widely acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory will decide whether these conclusions were excessive, or simply early.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46860661260439,"sku":"9798241335982","price":1672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798241335982.webp?v=1769957610","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/along-the-path-of-globalization-what-continues-to-break-as-the-world-moves-forward-9798241335982","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}