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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...
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
This volume gives an account of financial scares through history which also provides insights into why market crashes remain a reality. This version draws on examples from 1618 to the...
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...
Sack the Economists and Disband Their Departments
Mainstream economists completely failed to anticipate the financial market crash of 2007-8. They then called it an unforeseeable event. This is a clear admission that they don't understand how economies...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what...
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...
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...
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
$25.00 AUD
Explains the relationship between culture and economics and predicts which countries will win the ongoing battle for economic dominance.
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...
Zara and her Sisters: The Story of the World's Largest Clothing
Zara is the best known Spanish brand at an international level, and is listed among the hundred most valuable companies in the world. This insightful new book reveals the secrets...
The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent
Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere. The bulk of the world's growth in population and economic activity in the foreseeable...
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,...
Trust: The Social Virtues And the Creation of Prosperity
After the end of the Cold War, it is clear that the chief policy issue facing the United States and other industrial democracies will be that of economic competitiveness. In...
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...
The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for
US President Donald Trump has long complained that the nation's $3 trillion trade in goods deficit - when a country's imports exceed its exports - are evidence of global partners...