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Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf. By invading Iraq, President George W. Bush grossly undermined American credibility in the international arena and irrevocably weakened Washington’s ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Inside markets, innovation, and risk Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street–from Morgan Stanley to Salomon ...

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description On the first anniversary of the murder of Lehman, Joseph Tibman, a 20-year veteran and senior investment banker, reveals in plain English, the people and forces that share responsibility for this catastrophe. His shattering account is ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A Street economist's strategy for managing market madness "The Cost of Capitalism is a must-read and a thoroughly enjoyable one—for those who want to understand the Crisis of 2008 and hammer out a new framework for ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description Listen to a short interview with Rawi Abdelal Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description The global economic crisis has made clear China's importance and expanding role on the world stage. The bestselling book, China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities--now available in paperback--explains actions both China and the United States can take ...

Editorial reviews: "A lively book that is packed with incident, anecdote and derring-do... Mr. Chanda traces advances in trading practices and technology - from donkeys and camels to container ships and cargo planes - but is just as good at ...

Editorial reviews: “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical... this is Bigthink with a capital B.”—The New York Times Book Review“Jeffrey Sachs never disappoints. . . . This book is an excellent resource for all those who want to understand what ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description A beloved classic comes to life with this beautifully illustrated annotated edition on the 100th anniversary of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the quintessential American fairy tale, but also one of the most controversial ...

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year ...

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description “Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” — Boston Sunday Globe “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather ...

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool's Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the ...

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation’s fifth-largest ...

Amazon Editorial reviewsProduct Description The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely. No one has bettered Keynes's description of the psychology of investors during a financial crisis: ‘The practice of calmness and immobility, of certainty and security, ...