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Perspectives eBook Series

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  • The BRIC Road to Growth

    by Jim O'Neill ...
    Series series Perspectives
    The idea that Brazil, Russia, India and China (the "BRICs") are the rising stars of the world economy is now widely accepted. However, the "old" developed nations have not adjusted to the new world order as they struggle with the legacy of the financial crisis. The BRICs and others (especially Korea) have already ‘emerged’ as economic powers. This requires rapid adjustment in economic policies and ... Read more

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

    PHP598.69

  • The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ... Read more

    PHP990.29

  • The Great Rebalancing

    Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy - Updated Edition

    by Michael Pettis, Michael Pettis ...
    How trade imbalances spurred on the global financial crisis and why we aren't out of trouble yetChina's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. ... Read more

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  • The Fastest Billion

    The Story Behind Africa's Economic Revolution

    by Charles Robertson ...
    From the vantage point of many in the West, Africa remains a continent of woe – a place stalked by ethnic conflict, corrupt dictatorships, religious strife, war and famine. But today, at last, the flawed mythology that treats Africa as a homogenous disaster area is being challenged by investors, economists, fund managers and academics. Age is not often associated with speed; but Africa, the cradle ... Read more

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  • Who's in Charge Here?

    How Governments Are Failing the World Economy (an eSpecial from Riverhead Books)

    by Alan Beattie ...
    From the author of False Economy, a brief, incisive look into the pitfalls of the world economy, and those who run the show.In a short, brilliant, and unsparing examination of government-- from the age of the empire to our current systems-- Alan Beattie takes us through the intricacies of the contemporary economic world. ... Read more

    PHP218.44

  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

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  • Why Capitalism?

    by Allan H. Meltzer ...
    A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached the point that many even question capitalism itself. Allan H. Meltzer disagrees, passionately and ... Read more

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  • The Roaring Nineties

    A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States.The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's ... Read more

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  • George Soros On Globalization

    by George Soros ...
    Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO are accused of being inefficient and corrupt. Is our global economy as unhealthy, and as unjust, as we think? And what can be done ... Read more

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  • Tax Havens

    How Globalization Really Works

    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless ... Read more

    PHP1,375.59