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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus  Publisher Comments The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world — and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the...
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The Power of Development
by Jonathan Crush Publisher Comments This book examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder. The common thread in these essays is the language and rhetoric of the development text. By...
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
by Vandana Shiva 
Publisher Comments While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. In...
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The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges
by Inge Kaul Publisher Comments The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed. The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans...
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs Publisher Comments He has been cited by the New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full...
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
Publisher Comments In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic...
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Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
by Hal Sirkin Publisher Comments Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries. Globality is the next step, where rapidly developing economies from around the world are now competing with us head to head. The authors present a strong...
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments 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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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas Friedman
Publisher Comments As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life — Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in...
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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
by Joseph E Stiglitz Publisher Comments This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what people understood about the 1990s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were...
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Globalinstability
by Amy Chua
Publisher Comments Every few years, a book is published about America's role in the world and the changing contest of global affairs that gets everyone thinking in a new way. Amy Chua's WORLD ON FIRE will have exactly that kind of impact on the debate of how the world has...
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Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
by Ck Prahalad Publisher Comments Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. Prahalad's global bestseller shows why companies can't afford to ignore "Bottom of the Pyramid" (BOP) markets. Now available in paperback, it offers a blueprint for...
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A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
by George Lodge Publisher Comments "Extreme poverty threatens the very underpinnings of our ever-shrinking world. George Lodge and Craig Wilson argue that corporations must lead the fight against global poverty. Their idea of a World Development Corporation will provoke heated discussion...
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books)
by Arjun Appadurai Publisher Comments A leading theorist of globalization provides a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global...
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Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
by Nayan Chanda Publisher Comments Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors...
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The World Bank: A Critical Primer
by Eric Toussaint Synopsis The World Bank is a controversial organization. It is widely viewed with suspicion, as the international economic arm of the US, in thrall to the President who is responsible for appointing the head of the Bank. Eric Toussaint gives a highly readable...
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Game As Old As Empire (07 Edition)
by Hiatt Publisher Comments John Perkins's sensational New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (more than 300,000 sold) revealed just the tip of the iceberg of the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption. Now more economic hit men and...
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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
by Joseph Stiglitz Publisher Comments Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how...
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World on Fire : How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (03 Edition)
by Amy Chua Publisher Comments For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this astute, original...
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Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity
by Lester C Thurow Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index....
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