Globalization (a Public Culture Book)

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description This second installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet seeks to intervene in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization, which includes debates about what globalization is and whether it is a meaningful term. ...

Irrational Exuberance

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude ...

Measuring Globalisation: Gauging Its Consequences

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations, and the natural environment have become successively more intertwined. While the increased global economic integration, global forms of governance, globally inter-linked social and environmental developments ...

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description "A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." -- The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from ...

Global Issues: Politics, Economics and Culture (2nd Edition)

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description From human rights and terrorism to climate change and pandemics, Global Issues is a current and topical look at the forces driving globalization. This text focuses on global affairs that transcend state boundaries and are transforming ...

The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report evaluates the potential for sustained economic growth of over 130 developed and emerging economies and ranks them accordingly. Since its first release in 1979, the Report has become ...