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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $8.87
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kevin Bales
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3620905
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Publication Date: 2007-09-28
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Reading Level: 274
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Description: In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $12.43
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz::Andrew Charlton
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 382
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Publication Date: 2007-09-17
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: 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 globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper.
In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--how can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments. The book illuminates the reforms and principles upon which a successful settlement must be based.
Vividly written, highly topical, and packed with insightful analyses, Fair Trade For All offers a radical new solution to the problems of world trade. It is a must read for anyone interested in globalization and development in the Third World.
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Price: $127.80
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Sale: $100.00
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Melvin
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Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Edition: 7
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332.042
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Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Melvin's International Money and Finance offers a concise survey of international finance. The basics of the foreign exchange market, balance of payments, international investment, and links among interest rates, prices, and exchange rates are presented, along with the latest research findings related to the field.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: M.E. Sharpe
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald R. Wright
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Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 966.51
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Publication Date: 2004-02
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Reading Level: 351
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $34.78
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 2007-08-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: Over the last decade globalization has captured the public and academic imagination. This second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization provides an exciting introduction to the flows and interconnections of globalization, focusing simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. Editors Inda & Rosaldo have collected some of the finest work on globalization published in English over the past decade in order to provided readers with a rich introduction to the subject. This updated edition also includes helpful section introductions and recommendations for further readings.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $31.45
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lourdes Beneria
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.082
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Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of every international organization. There is an underside (and a human side) to development, and feminism has made inroads into the highly technical debates and frothy prophecies by examining what the future really holds for the people who will live it. This book highlights the ways in which feminist analysis has contributed to a richer understanding of international development and globalization. By combining theoretical, empirical, and political perspectives and discusses cutting-edge debates around development, globalization, economic restructuring, and feminist economics, Gender, Development and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $20.27
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ngai Pun
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.4870951
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Publication Date: 2005-02
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Reading Level: 228
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Description: As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family.
Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeffry A. Frieden
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.0904
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Publication Date: 2006-01-09
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: A rich, revealing history of the economic and political events that have shaped our time.
International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before....Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914.
Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the twentieth century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening. It deepens our understanding of the century just past and sheds light on our current situation.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $12.20
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Manufacturer: Institute for International Economics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dani Rodrik
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Publisher: Institute for International Economics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.1
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Publication Date: 1997-03-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market-the apparent "winners"-and those without. These apparent "losers" are increasingly anxious about their standards of living and their precarious place in an integrated world economy. The result is severe tension between the market and broad sectors of society, with governments caught in the middle. Compounding the very real problems that need to be addressed by all involved, the kneejerk rhetoric of both sides threatens to crowd out rational debate. From the United States to Europe to Asia, positions are hardening. Author Dani Rodrik brings a clear and reasoned voice to these questions. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? takes an unblinking and objective look at the benefits-and risks-of international economic integration, and criticizes mainstream economists for downplaying its dangers. It also makes a unique and persuasive case that the "winners" have as much at stake from the possible consequences of social instability as the "losers." As Rodrik points out, ". . . social disintegration is not a spectator sport-those on the sidelines also get splashed with mud from the field. Ultimately, the deepening of social fissures can harm all." President Clinton has read the book and it provided the conceptual basis for the trade/IMF portions of the State of the Union message in January 1998.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $44.00
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Donald J. Boudreaux
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.1
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Publication Date: 2007-12-30
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Reading Level: 184
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Description: The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. Over the past fifty years, international business has evolved from the realm of the largest multinational corporations to the base scenario; every business and every citizen who participates in economic activity--by creating, buying, and selling products and services--is now a member of the global economy. But moving our thinking and actions beyond the local sphere is both challenging and problematic; the international domain is more complex, and introduces a new dimension of risks and uncertainties. Yet it it also ripe for business opportunity and wealth creation for those who learn how to navigate in it. Globalization defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy--and how it influences businesses and individuals on a local scale. Each chapter identifies common questions and issues that have gained exposure in the popular media--such as outsourcing, the high cost of international travel, and the impact of a fast-growing China--to illustrate underlying drivers and mechanisms at work. Covering international trade, national wealth disparities (the haves vs. the have-nots), foreign investment, and geographical and cultural issues, and supported with illustrations, maps, charts, a glossary and timeline of key events, this volume illuminates the dynamics of the global economy and informs readers of its profound impact on our daily lives.
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