Frictionless Markets The 21st Century Supply Chain /

• Main Author: Buffington, Jack (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Production management.; Nature.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Operations Management.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

This volume models a 21st century supply chain: one that uses technology that leads to the power of the individual, not larger organizations. Author Jack Buffington explains how in the near future, each of us will be a “prosumer” in a peer-based economy of micro-level manufacturing with little waste...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Friction = Jobs
• 2. An End to (20th Century) Growth?
• 3. Nature's Approach to Design
• 4. Frictionless (Good) Materials
• 5. The Future of Manufacturing: An End to Mass Production
• 6. Frictionless Markets: No Supplu Chain Required
• 7. 2030: Frictionless Markets
• 8. Economic Possibilities for My (Not Keynes') Grandchildren.