Onishi (emeritus, economics, Soka U.) describes and explains the Futures of Global Interdependence (FUGI) global modeling system, which has been developed as a scientific policy modeling and future simulation tool for providing global information to human society and finding possibilities for policy coordination among countries in order to achieve sustainable development in the context of a global economy. The rationale is that as problems, and presumably solutions to them, are increasingly at the global scale, economic models developed for lesser scales will prove inadequate. His topics include examples of estimated parameters of the global model, alternative paths of the global economy against carbon-dioxide emissions, and policy exercises and simulations of futures. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)