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Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (07 Edition)
by Naomi Klein  
Powells.com Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine...
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Powells.com Staff Pick Rather than a grim manifesto on the world's problems, Jeffrey Sachs offers readers what he calls the four key goals of a global society — prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental...
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher Comments A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the worldas poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence...
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The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means...
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The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
by John Perkins Synopsis From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations....
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposA(c) of international corruptiona and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner...
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Globalization and Its Discontents (02 Edition)
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher Comments This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the...
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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 Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
by John Perkins Publisher Comments A riveting exposé of international corruption — and what we can do about it, from the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an...
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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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When Corporations Rule the World 2ND Edition
by David C Korten Publisher Comments It is absolutely essential to be exposed to David C. Kortens work. . .on corporations and viable alternatives to corporate hegemony. --Educate Volume 2, Issue 3 *An international best-seller *Endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and World Economic Forum...
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunnus
Publisher Comments Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of...
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly Publisher Comments From one of the worlds best-known development economistsan excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Wests efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized...
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Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World
by Alex Counts Publisher Comments Praise for Small Loans, Big Dreams I was enthralled to see the difference a few dollars loaned with no collateral in Bangladesh could benefit and change Chicago's poorest of the poor. I learned how pennies defeated myths about the poor. This book will...
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Water Wars : Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (02 Edition)
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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Making Globalization Work (06 Edition)
by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments A bold new blueprint for action from one of globalization's closest observers and toughest critics. An imaginative and, above all, practical vision for a successful and equitable world, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz's Making Globalization Work...
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten Publisher Comments *Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time *Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting there In The Great Turning, David Korten argues that...
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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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Mystery of Capital : Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (00 Edition)
by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is...
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