Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)
by Gavin Fridell
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Fridell (politics, Trent U.) assesses the degree to which capitalism
can be reformed, taking as his case study the possibility of a world
trade in coffee that does not require the virtual slavery of growers
in countries kept deliberately impoverished....
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The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)
by Carl J Schramm
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In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our...
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Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
by Hazel Henderson
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With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo.
Throughout "Ethical...
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Transparency in Global Change
by Burkart Holzner
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Transparency in Global Change examines the quest for information exchange in an increasingly international, open society. Recent transformations in governments and cultures have brought about a surge in the pursuit of knowledge in areas of law...
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Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies - And Why The
by Allan Carlson
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Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers...
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Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the Crisis
by Joint Learning Initi
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In this analysis of the global workforce, the Joint Learning Initiative, a consortium of more than 100 health leaders, proposes that mobilization and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health...
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The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time
by John K Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the...
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The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
by Diane Coyle
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The Weightless World is the first book to map an economic world that has been turned upside down by digital technology and global business. How will our careers, businesses, and governments change in a world where bytes are the only currency and where...
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Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs
by Ron Hira
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In the debate over outsourcing, one fact is clear: Most companies believe they can save a tremendous amount of money by shipping American jobs overseas. They no longer see outsourcing as an option but rather as an imperative. Consequently, as many as 14...
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Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt. Prison, and Workfare
by Vijay Prashad
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In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy. Prashad assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor...
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
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Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren't paid for their labor-people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning...
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
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New in paperback comes the national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe....
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Number Freaking: How to Change the World with Delightfully Surreal Statistics
by Gary Rimmer
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From the author of "How to Make a Camel Smoothie" comes a book of surreal sums and absurd arithmetic: it's doodling with numbers, doing sums in one's head just for fun, and playing dice with the universe....
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
by Philippe Legrain
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"We expect crisp writing and careful analysis from Philippe Legrain. In "Immigrants," he adds reporting from across the world and a passionate defense of our freedom to cross borders. By turns logical, daring, and compassionate, this is a terrific book."-...
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Making Globalization Work
by Joseph Stiglitz
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Why isn't globalization benefiting as many people as it should? Drawing on real-life examples, Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really works. In MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK he examines how...
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The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur
by Francesco Duina
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"In this pathbreaking book, Francesco Duina smartly challenges conventional wisdom on globalization, contrasting economic visions of integration with social understandings of how markets work. By comparing three different regional trade agreements, the...
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The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror
by Joshua S Goldstein
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View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface. "An interesting book that raises many important questions"—Journal of Peace Research "Comprehensive examination of the myriad costs of war." —Forecast "A compact and cogent study...
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Setting the Global Agenda: Corporate Coalitions, Coercion and Control
by Sharon Beder
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Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating expose of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy.In this brilliantly researched expose...
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The Global Citizen's Handbook: Facing Our World's Crises and Challenges
by World Bank
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The hard facts you need to know about the critical issues of our time and the consequences of inaction
Current global challenges--issues such as AIDS, poverty, migration, CO2 emissions, and population pressures presented in clear maps, graphs, and...
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Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?
by Peter Drahos
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-241) and index....
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