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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $15.85
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alice H. Amsden
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.7301724
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Publication Date: 2007-06-29
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks in part to flexible American policies that showed an awareness of the diversity of Third World countries and an appreciation for their long-standing knowledge about how their own economies worked. Then during the Reagan era, American policy changed. The definition of laissez-faire shifted from "Do it your way" to an imperial "Do it our way." Growth in the developing world slowed, income inequalities skyrocketed, and financial crises raged. Only East Asian economies resisted the strict prescriptions of Washington and continued to boom. Why?
In Escape from Empire, Alice Amsden argues provocatively that the more freedom a developing country has to determine its own policies, the faster its economy will grow. America's recent inflexibility--as it has single-mindedly imposed the same rules, laws, and institutions on all developing economies under its influence--has been the backdrop to the rise of two new giants, China and India, who have built economic power in their own way.
Amsden describes the two eras in America's relationship with the developing world as "Heaven" and "Hell"--a beneficent and politically savvy empire followed by a dictatorial, ideology-driven one. What will the next American empire learn from the failure of the last? Amsden argues convincingly that the world--and the United States--will be far better off if new centers of power are met with sensible policies rather than hard-knuckled ideologies. But, she asks, can it be done?
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Price: $12.99
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Sale: $0.50
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.26
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Publication Date: 2006-06-12
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Edited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions discusses the ten most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition, migration, sanitation and clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers.
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Price: $34.80
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Sale: $26.43
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lui F. Hebron::John F. Stack
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
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Publication Date: 2008-01-08
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Globalization: Debunking the Myths demystifies the rhetoric surrounding one of the most hotly debated topics among scholars, commentators, and policymakers. Presenting arguments for and against globalization, this text examines a wide range of views on the economic, political, cultural, and environmental dimensions of globalization and exposes their underlying frameworks, methodologies, and expectations. Throughout, Globalization compares rhetoric and reality and argues that there is no one way to understand this complex phenomenon. "Globalization moves the discussion of globalization beyond polemics to carve out an informed middle-ground position."–Sheila Croucher, Miami University "With an intimate knowledge of the scholarly literature, an acute awareness of the public significance of the issues, and an engaging style, Hebron and Stack tkae us through a shifting landscape..."–James Piscatori, The Australian National University "Globalization is required reading for anyone, either in academe or the general public, who wants to obtain greater understanding of the consequences of globalization."âPatrick James, University of Southern California
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.74
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Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: El Fisgon
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337.0202
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Publication Date: 2004-07-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: A biting comic-book history of capitalism and globalization from the “dean of Mexico’s vigorous corps of political cartoonists” (The New York Times)
In hopes of curing his business woes, Charro Machorro—windshield washer, roadside vendor, and free-market enthusiast—pays a visit to a faith healer in the Arizona desert and learns more than he bargained for about how the free market really works. To increase his profits, the healer suggests, he should establish his company during the Middle Ages, gain a monopoly, exploit natural resources, break up unions (though currently he’s the only employee), and, of course, become a multinational corporation. The healer’s $20,000 fee shows that she, at least, knows how to manage her own little business.
In a single, hilarious rush, cartoonist Rafael Barajas, aka El Fisgón (“the peeper”), takes us from the dawn of capitalism to the age of global conglomerates, showing how the world economy developed and how it functions today. Amid the laughs, he offers a critique of a planet in which the few “globalize” to their endless benefit, while everyone else suffers poverty, famine, migration, and war.
El Fisgón’s graphically stunning, visually sophisticated book, filled with allusions to the history of art and cartooning, cleverly reverses every self-help manual for playing the market, teaching us not how to become rich but rather why so many remain poor.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.82
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vincent A. Gallagher
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 166
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $29.65
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2005-03-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: How might we see world affairs if we started with people, families, and communities instead of presidents, governments, and militaries? After all, it is people who make up cities, states, and corporations, and it is their beliefs and behaviors that explain why some parts of the world seem so peaceful while others appear so violent, why some societies are so rich while others are so poor. This unique look at contemporary global politics begins with people, treating them as social individuals with free will and human agency even as they are limited and disciplined by rules and rulers. Placing people in the center of their analysis instead of states, this dynamic team of authors trades perspectives with each other and with such eminent social theorists as Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt to develop their resonant theme. Offering both practical examples and theoretical frameworks, TZtreault and Lipschutz show us how we can take charge of our lives and the politics that affect them, even in the context of a vast global economy and impersonal international forces that sometimes seem out of control. Filled with idealism, yet firmly grounded in contemporary realities, Global Politics as if People Mattered offers a fresh take on our proper place in the world front and center, actively engaged in a way of life that is as politically personal as it is politically powerful. Helping each of us, alone and together, to carve out our own political space in the contemporary global order is a major aim of this innovative and inspiring book.
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Price: $17.33
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Sale: $10.34
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Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Glynn Cochrane
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Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 339.46091724
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Publication Date: 2008-02-29
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Reading Level: 192
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.95
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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: Lawrence E. Harrison
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338
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Publication Date: 2008-07-08
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Which cultural values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social justice, and prosperity? How can we use the forces that shape cultural change, such as religion, education, and political leadership, to promote these values in the Third World--and for underachieving minorities in the First World? In this book, Lawrence E. Harrison offers intriguing answers to these questions, in a valuable follow-up to his acclaimed Culture Matters.
Drawing on a three-year research project that explored the cultural values of dozens of nations--from Botswana, Sweden, and India to China, Egypt, and Chile--Harrison offers a provocative look at values around the globe, revealing how each nation's culture has propelled or retarded their political and economic progress. The book presents 25 factors that operate very differently in cultures prone to progress and those that resist it, including one's influence over destiny, the importance attached to education, the extent to which people identify with and trust others, and the role of women in society. Harrison pulls no punches, and many of his findings are controversial.
Contradicting the arguments of multiculturalists, this book contends that when it comes to promoting human progress, some cultures are clearly more effective than others. It convincingly shows which values, beliefs, and attitudes work and how we can foster them.
"Harrison takes up the question that is at the center of politics today: Can we self-consciously change cultures so they encourage development and modernization?"
--David Brooks, New York Times
"I can think of no better entrance to the topic, both for what it teaches and the way it invites and prepares the reader to continue. A gateway study."
--David S. Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $25.32
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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: Katherine Marshall
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332.1532
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Publication Date: 2008-03-15
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Reading Level: 191
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Description: The World Bank is one the most important and least understood major international institutions. This book provides a concise, accessible and comprehensive overview of the World Bank's history, development, structure, functionality and activities. These themes are illustrated with a wide variety of case studies drawn from the Bank's international activities. This new book also discusses the controversial challenges that the Bank now faces in the light of the criticism from campaigners and NGOs. The World Bank is essential reading for all students, activists and policy makers with an interest in globalization, global governance and development who wish to understand where the World Bank goes from here.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.91
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Manufacturer: Picador
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Naomi Klein
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Publisher: Picador
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337
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Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Naomi Klein’s No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.
Named one of Ms Magazine’s Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be “probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world,” in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a bird’s-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the “anti-globalization” movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; “free trade;” or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.
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