The Prosperity Paradox
The Prosperity Paradox is a business audiobook written by Clayton Christensen, that provides various entities a venue towards sustainable progress. This audiobook exposes why so many economic investments fail to general sustainable prosperity, and why global poverty is one of the world’s most vexing problems. The Prosperity Paradox identifies the limits of common economic development models, which tend to be top-down efforts, and offers a new framework for economic growth based on entrepreneurship and market-creating innovation.
Christensen, Ojomo, and Dillon use successful examples from America's own economic development, including Ford, Eastman Kodak, and Singer Sewing Machines.
It also shows how similar models have worked in other regions such as Japan, South Korea, Nigeria, Rwanda, India, Argentina, and Mexico.
The ideas in this book will help companies desperate for real, long-term growth see actual, sustainable progress where they’ve failed before.
Table of Contents
Section 1 The Power Of Market-Creating Innovations
Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Prosperity Paradox
Chapter 2 Not All Innovations Are Created Equal
Chapter 3 In the Struggle Lies Opportunity
Chapter 4 Pull Versus Push: A Tale of Two Strategies
Section 2 How Innovation Created Prosperity For Many
Chapter 5 America's Innovation Story
Chapter 6 How the East Met the West
Chapter 7 Mexico's Efficiency Problem
Section 3 Overcoming The Barriers
Chapter 8 Good Laws Are Not Enough
Chapter 9 Corruption Is Not the Problem; It's a Solution
Chapter 10 If You Build It, They May Not Come
Section 4 What Now?
Chapter 11 From Prosperity Paradox to Prosperity Process
Appendix: The World Through New Lenses
Acknowledgments