The Fractured Trillion: The World Economy in 2025 and Beyond
What does it mean to live in a world that just passed $100 trillion in GDP-yet feels more unstable than ever?
The Fractured Trillion is a bold, urgent, and deeply visual exploration of a global economy that has grown too large, too fast, and far too unevenly. In a time when growth no longer guarantees prosperity-and prosperity no longer guarantees peace-this book offers something rare: clarity, curiosity, and a framework for navigating the chaos ahead.
From the aftermath of pandemic disruption and war-driven inflation to the rise of AI, digital currencies, climate upheaval, and economic polarization, the global economy in 2025 no longer operates as a single, coordinated system. It is a mosaic of moving parts-shifting alliances, generational divides, decentralized technologies, and cultural rewrites. What we're witnessing isn't just an economic transition. It's a civilizational reckoning.
This book is designed for the modern global reader-modular in structure, rich in insights, and built for those who want more than headlines and hype. It is not just a critique of broken systems. It is a call to build better ones.
Structured for the 21st-Century Reader
The Fractured Trillion is not a traditional economics book. It blends global storytelling, data-driven analysis, and speculative insight across 100 short chapters. Each chapter is crafted to be self-contained, yet interconnected-designed to inform, inspire, and provoke deep thought.
This book combines:
- Data storytelling: Digestible economic insights grounded in IMF, World Bank, and Bloomberg projections
- Narrative nonfiction: Real-world accounts from Seoul to S o Paulo, Lagos to London
- Speculative futures: What-if scenarios imagining the world in 2030 and beyond
- Contrarian takes: Challenges to prevailing narratives in economics and policy
- Visual simplicity: Infographics, charts, and illustrated metaphors inspired by Factfulness, Freakonomics, and Visual Capitalist
Key Topics Include:
- Why China's real estate crisis threatens its economic future
- The unexpected rise of India and the Global South
- How AI and automation are rewriting the very definition of GDP
- The rise of economic blocs and the slow death of globalization
- Africa's leapfrog opportunity-and the pitfalls it must avoid
- Degrowth, ecological metrics, and the emotional economy of tomorrow
- New definitions of wealth: ecological, digital, communal, and time-based
A Global Voice for a Global Reader
The Fractured Trillion speaks in a voice that is both authoritative and accessible. It draws on the intellectual weight of thinkers like Thomas Piketty, the curiosity of authors like Yuval Noah Harari, and the data-rich visuality of Hans Rosling. It is built for a generation that demands evidence, ethics, and vision-all at once.
This book will resonate with:
- Entrepreneurs navigating economic and technological disruption
- Policymakers designing systems for an unpredictable future
- Students of economics, global affairs, and sustainability
- Researchers and journalists in search of patterns across data and society
- Everyday readers seeking to understand their place in a fractured world
Whether you are a founder, futurist, civic leader, policy analyst, or global citizen, this book offers more than insight-it offers a compass.
The Final Challenge
Across 99 chapters, we've examined collapses and corrections, opportunities and upheavals. The 100th chapter is about you. The systems are cracking, and the trillion-dollar question remains:
In this fractured, evolving economy-what will you build now?
Let this be not just the end of a book, but the beginning of a blueprint.
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