Globalization: A Critical Introduction

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description The increasing globalization of economic, social, political, and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte's new book provides a concise but broad-ranging introduction to its ...

The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description In the fall of 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis more severe than any since the Great Depression. As banks collapsed and the state scrambled to organize one of the largest transfers ...

Why Globalization Works (Yale Nota Bene)

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A distinguished international economist here offers a powerful defense of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been ...

High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description The most impressive idea to emerge from the recent World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland: a new approach to identifying and managing the world's twenty most pressing problems. In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, ...

The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Neoliberalism. Neoconservatism. Postmarxism. Postmodernism. Is there really something genuinely new about today's isms? Have we moved past our traditional ideological landscape? Combining political history, philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned story-telling, Manfred B. Steger traces ideology's remarkable ...

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke ...

Globalization: A Short History

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description "Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon ...

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of ...

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader India’s recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe’s during the 1970s—has ...

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description Dubai has a remarkable success story. Since its origins as a small fishing and pearling community, the emirate has steadily grown in strength to become the premier trading center of the Persian Gulf. It is ...

Development as Freedom

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient ...