Professor Jorge Sá (PhD Columbia University; MBA Drucker University; Jean Monnet Chair; Peter Drucker speaker) gave recently a talk on:
“Why the top ten countries in the world have 200 times the GDP per capita of the bottom ten? : countries as companies”
Following Peter Drucker’s saying “There are no underdeveloped countries, only undermanaged ones”, this empirically based conference focused on:
- Why is Singapore, Iceland, Luxembourg, Ireland, Taiwan or Netherlands, although absolutely dispossessed of natural resources, among the wealthiest countries in the world?
- Presented with very simple diagrams (but based on rigorous statistical research) the results explain 90% of the GDP per capita variance among a large sample of countries over a long period;
- Countries as a whole (private sector + social + public + non working population) are seen as companies (after all there are many multinationals larger than countries) with marketing, strategy, human resources policies, etc. (all business administration areas) operationalized by official statistics or NGO indexes.
The talk was based on Professor Sá’s recent book “Economic Myths and Economic Realities” which was published in 2024 by the American publisher A. Macauley (cover, index and back cover below):
Check Professor Sá short bio at: https://www.vasconcellosesa.com/jorge-sa/
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