 | Paul Roberts examines the sobering realities of food policy and politics as he issues a dire warning that the global system of food production and distribution is nearing a breakdown point. Roberts brings a global focus to the problem, as he... |
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 | Globalization is such an important word today, but as a concept it is sometimes difficult to grasp. What is globalization? Is it political? Economic? Social? All of the above? In TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, Pietra Rivoli, a real-world... |
 | A history of the world through an examination of world trade, A SPLENDID EXCHANGE is a lively survey that provides a convincing argument that commerce was the engine that drove Western civilization. William J. Bernstein takes events familiar from... |
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 | John Perkins, in this controversial book, defines a job that few people are aware of: economists whose sole function is to persuade developing countries to take on enormous loans so that they can hire American companies, thus diverting vast sums of... |
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 | Today, India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour, and China is as close as the nearest Wal-Mart. Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but... |
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