DHL's index shows that whilst advanced economies tend to be more interconnected than emerging economies, only a handful of small, wealthy places are deeply interconnected, including Singapore, Hong Kong and Luxembourg.Past episodes of deglobalisation suggest that political pressure to retreat from the world builds slowly but is also slow to dissipate.
Doubtless he doesn't want to put off the largely secular middle-class Americans in weekend casuals who crowd Central Park to listen to him, but, as Iyer points out, this is also a reaffirmation of a Buddhist philosophical vision in which all existence is deeply interconnected.
And he did not make the case strongly enough that the health care system and the economy are deeply interconnected or explain why Americans should care about this huge issue in the midst of a recession: If they lose their jobs, they lose their health insurance.
Gas fraction distributions, liquid and gas velocity profiles and bubble size distributions across bubble columns are deeply interconnected in these systems and only a comprehensive study allows the links between them to be understood.
If we recognize that the logics of efficiency viz., economies of scope and economies of scale are different for agriculture, factory manufacturing and retail business and that these economic activities are deeply interconnected with each other, the first challenge is to appropriately design organization with one or the other logic.
