This short book puts forward three theses: world markets, including many services, have and will continue to become highly globalized; the modern nation-state has developed too many rigid rules and practices--fiercely defended by special economic interests, including income transfers to poor regions--to cope with rapidly changing international economic circumstances and opportunities; and new "region-states" of 5 to 20 million persons, possibly crossing national boundaries, represent the natural unit of economic growth, enjoying economies of scale in services (e.g., advertising) but too small to entertain delusions of self-sufficiency in anything. The economic action of the future, says Ohmae, will be in such