Jacques, Martin.

Summary: Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009

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Contents: Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins -- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt -- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne -- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen -- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar -- The human cost of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007

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Stone Fish, Isaac

Summary: "A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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Chang, Ha-Joon

Summary: Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2023

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Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany

Summary: "Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Ross, Alec

Summary: Over the past two decades, the Internet has radically changed markets and businesses worldwide. In The Industries of the Future, Ross shows us what's next, highlighting the best opportunities for progress and explaining why countries thrive or sputter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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Broughton, Chad.

Summary: "In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

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Moyo, Dambisa.

Summary: Discusses the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades and, in particular, the implications of China's rush for resources across all regions of the world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012

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Arrighi, Giovanni.

Contents: Pt. 1. Adam Smith and the new Asian age -- Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing -- The historical sociology of Adam Smith -- Marx, Schumpeter, and the "endless" accumulation of capital and power -- Pt. 2. Tracking global turbulence -- The economics of global turbulence -- Social dynamics of global turbulence -- A crisis of hegemony -- Pt. 3. Hegemony unraveling -- Domination without Hegemony --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2007

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Engler, Mark.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2007

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Lomborg, Bjørn

Contents: The short story: higher temperatures -- Global warming: the many worries -- The politics of global warming.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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Summary: "In fourteen chapters, sixteen chief market economists provide perspective on the global economy including: globalization, currency, employment, commodity prices, developing economies, trade, fiscal and monetary policies, the future of the dollar and the euro, and the economic and political future of Asia and Europe. Includes 105 graphs and charts"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomberg Press 2005

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Barlow, Maude.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2002

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Stiglitz, Joseph E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002

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Timiraos, Nick

Summary: "By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. America's workplaces-offices, shops, malls, and factories-shuttered. Many of the nation's largest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2022

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Johnson, Ian

Summary: "The tectonic plates that form China have left it a checkerboard of mountains and rivers and memories. From the south, the Indian plate pushes up into the Eurasian, creating the Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau that almost cuts the country off from the rest of the continent. Rippling outward are smaller mountain ranges that ebb and flow toward the Pacific Ocean, like deep swells heaving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2023

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Shuman, Michael.

Summary: Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart; Michael Shuman begs to differ. In The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler 2006

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Veseth, Michael

Summary: "Wine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodification, and the "revenge of the terroirists" help determine what's in your wine glass - and how wine's triple crisis threatens the soul of wine"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Ross, John

Contents: Introduction: Welcome to El Monstruo -- Birth of a monstruo -- City of flowers & smoking hearts -- City of palaces & ghosts -- City of betrayed hopes -- City of order & progress -- City of the cannibal revolution -- City of artists & assassins -- City & country -- The city goes to war; city of miracles & hype -- Uruchurtu's city -- City of dread & redemption -- City of denial & shame -- City in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009

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Whybrow, Peter C.

Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006

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