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China and India - Learning from Each Other: Reforms and Policies for
What does the future hold for these giants that are the two fastest-growing emerging markets and among the three largest economies in Asia? Their economic muscle is having increasingly far-reaching...
Introducing Global Issues
Issues ranging from conflict and security, to the economy and economic development, to the environment are explored in this fully revised and updated edition of "Introducing Global Issues."Increased attention is...
Circus Maximus: The Economical Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and
Circus Maximus traces the path of the Olympic Games and the World Cup from noble sporting events to exhibits of excess. It exposes the hollowness of the claims made by...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
Beyond Meltdown: the Global Battle for Sustained Growth
The book titled Beyond Meltdown: the Global Battle for Sustained Growth by the author Peter Brain. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Does Education Matter?: Myths About Education and Economic Growth
A thought-provoking and often controversial look at education policy in the UK and comparatively. "Education, education and education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. it is...
Take it Personally
In this work, outspoken business leader Anita Roddick brings together the voices of some of the most prominent authorities on the phenomenon of Globalization, including Susan George, David Korten and...
Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China,
How the social organisation of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium. In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor,...
The Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth
We all know that China is becoming an economic powerhouse, India is close on China's heels, Korea is a leader of high tech innovations, and Japan has some of the...
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice
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The follow up to the bestselling Globalization and its Discontents, which sold over 20,000 hardbacks and 125,000 paperbacks in the UK; over 1 million copies sold worldwide Why isn't globalization...
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
This is the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery - and secretive offshore tax havens are at the heart of the trouble. WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIAL Billionaire...
Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet
'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UK In...
World Boom Ahead
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In World Boom Ahead, business journalist Knight Kiplinger looks beyond today's headlines - and the choppy waters just ahead - at the broad outlook for key industries, demographics and world...
Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pelerin Society and the
Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pelerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von...
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last
The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary
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"The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history. . . . Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a...
The Confidence Game: How Unelected Central Bankers are Governing the
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An expose of the elite group that controls the international money supply reveals unprecedented power and how close the global economy has come to collapsing.
What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and
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The book titled What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and by the author Robert Barry Carson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
One World, Ready or Not
This text explains the dynamics of the third industrial revolution by describing a story of human struggle: of diverse peoples and nations faced with the same dangers imposed by unregulated...
The Zero-sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic
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The book titled The Zero-sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic by the author Lester C. Thurow. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Determination of Production: An Introduction to the Study of
Originally published in 1954, this book presents a concise explanation of the way in which production and prices are determined in the Western world. The text was written with two...
The Killing Fields of Inequality
Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health,...
Globalization and Its Discontents
A controversial and authoritative account of what the world's financial institutions were doing during the 1990s. It contains a powerful condemnation of their policies and methods of directing the economies...
Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
Revised, Updated Edition Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
From Simon & Schuster, World Class is Rosabeth Moss Kanter's definitive guide to thriving locally in the global economy. World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy shows how to...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
When Corporations Rule The World
When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest....
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
There is a deep chasm between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction it is leaving in its wake....
The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power
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Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge America's cherished notion of exceptionalism, and risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure that has been in...
The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis. One of the world's most brilliant...
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen-and explores what it could mean for our...
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
Framing Play Design: A hands-on guide for designers, learners and
For many decades, play has been placed outside of learning spheres and only meant for children. What can be observed now is a revival of the phenomenal characteristics and potentials...
Sustainable Consumption: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives In Honour of
If global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be...
Successful China: Guiding Values of China's Success
Anyone trying to understand the general means of political economy development, China's remarkable accomplishment is an exceptionally - and only - case study. As importantly, China's success holds solutions on...
Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China,
How the social organisation of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium. In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor,...
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day
A fully updated edition of the seminal work in which the Nobel Prize-winning economists upend assumptions by revealing the unexpected choices that the poorest people make Why would a man...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle
New, practical approaches to confronting today's most daunting global issues. Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world's leaders continue to pursue outdated...
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic
A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great...
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much...
The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and the dominant power of Southeast Asia, was characterised in the early 1960s as a 'chronic economic dropout'. Out of the turbulence of...
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in...
Trust: The New Foundations of Global Prosperity
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Explains the relationship between culture and economics and predicts which countries will win the ongoing battle for economic dominance.