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Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets
by Walden F Bello  Publisher Comments In this book, leading thinkers confront what is to be done about the clearly unstable world economic system. They examine a raft of different ideas and approaches, including: how do we renew the process of governance of the global economy?; can the IMF...
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An End to Poverty?: A Historical Debate
by Gareth Stedma Jones Publisher Comments In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and...
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Reinventing Foreign Aid
by William Easterly Publisher Comments The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina Jolie, and Bono. And yet accompanying the call for more foreign aid is...
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
by Vandana Shiva 
Publisher Comments Shiva exposes the "new colonies" in the North's assault on the South's biological resources -- the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals -- and convincingly argues that international agreements enable Northern capital to appropriate...
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A Future Perfect: The Essentials of Globalization
by John Micklethwait Publisher Comments A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time -- globalization -- and how it will continue to change our lives. The authors analyze, demystify, and expose the global forces reshaping our world, and...
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Setting the Global Agenda: Corporate Coalitions, Coercion and Control
by Sharon Beder Publisher Comments 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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Globalization and State Power: A Reader
by Joel Krieger Publisher Comments A great standalone reader or complement to Krieger's new text, "Globalization and State Power: Who Wins When ""America"" Rules?" This book brings together selections by premier scholars that analyze how globalization has recast state power in a world...
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On Globalization
by Bruno Amoroso Publisher Comments Attempts to explain the radical reshaping of the realtionship between the economy and society over the last 20 years struggled against the inadequacy of the traditional tools posited on market streamlining and flexibility. Bruno Amoroso reconstructs the...
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Private Business-Public Battleground: The Case for 21st Century Stakeholder Companies
by John Egan Publisher Comments Major companies are increasingly coming under fire as they try to pursue their private business on a public battleground.Private Business-Public Battleground brings together two former opponents - Des Wilson & John Egan - to discuss the value of a...
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The Return of Depression Economics
by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments The author of "The Age of Diminished Expectations" returns with a sobering tour of the recent global economic crises, addressing the question: Will the Depression happen again? "A lucid explanation of how economies work, grow, get into trouble, and--one...
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The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
by Richard Duncan Publisher Comments Will the series of financial and currency crises in recent years culminate in the collapse of the U.S. dollar and a worldwide economic slump? This updated and revised edition of The Dollar Crisis describes the evolution of the crisis in the international...
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Long 20th Century
by Giovanni Arrighi Publisher Comments A masterpiece of historical sociology. Arrighi traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation that have shaped the course of world history over the millennium....
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The Roaring Nineties
by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments Stiglitz offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also alleges that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community--that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the...
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The Wto After Seattle
by Jeffrey J. (edt) Schott Book News Annotation Sharing some protest fallout from the December 1999 World Trade Organization Seattle meeting, the Institute for International Economics conference produced these 18 views on major trading nations' interests and WTO agenda issues. Economist Schott...
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Writing on the Wall (06 Edition)
by Will Hutton Publisher Comments Presents a controversial argument for America's assistance in helping China to become an economic superpower in order to safeguard peace and the financial success of both nations, explaining how American interests can be best served if China is supported...
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Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality
by Olaf Gersemann Publisher Comments Europeans and many American pundits believe that while the U.S. economy may create more growth, Europeans have it better when it comes to job security and other factors. Olaf Gersemann, a German reporter who came to America, found the reality quite...
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Institutional Change and Economic Development
by Ha Joon Chang Book News Annotation Chang (economics, U. of Cambridge, UK) brings together scholars from economics, history, political science, sociology, public administration, and business administration to examine a wide range of case material in order to identify the salient...
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The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
by Glenn Firebaugh Publisher Comments The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide...
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Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics
by Roberto Magab Unger Publisher Comments Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and...
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Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance
by Timothy J Hatton Publisher Comments World mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial revolutions at home enabled increasing numbers of people to set off for other parts of the globe in search of a better life. Two...
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