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"More than four billion people-some 60 percent of humanity-live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with climate, geography, and culture. It tells us all we have to do is give aid to help poor countries up the development ladder. If poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they could join the ranks of the rich world....
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2022]
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"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades and his estranged father--the white chief of police--on the opposite, the day descends into chaos, capturing in its confusion the activists, police, bystanders,...
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War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934....
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In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Thomas L. Friedman's Thank You for Being Late by Instaread Preview: Thomas Friedman's Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration is about the accelerating pace of change in modern society. The event that inspired the book's title occurred when some of Friedman's colleagues from the New York Times failed to arrive on time for an appointment. Friedman realized that the time spent...
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War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the...
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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*
This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.
Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows...
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Globalization is one of the characterizing patterns of the 21st
century. Rapid advancements taking place worldwide has
resulted in improvement of developing nations around the globe.
Progression, a decrease in the cost of transportation as well as
innovations in this matter have lead to much more convenient
circumstances, that is, the movement to remote areas and work
with partners living abroad has become very much easier. It's
difficult to think...
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A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank lays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them with democratic institutions that would make the global economy more accountable to an informed and active citizenry.
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At one time, Razor was a strapping, athletic, and active young man. Now, many years later, he has finally come to the realization that getting older really pisses him off. Now pear-shaped, slow, and forgetful, Razor is convinced he is not a pretty sight. Worse yet, Squatty Body his lovely, strong-willed wife is a real pain in his butt. In his first collection of humorous anecdotes and satirical commentary, based on real-life situations and current...
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China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevalent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucius' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force. We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and better. This idea of long-term success is alien to Chinese culture,...
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As people all over the world become more culturally and economically connected, a backlash towards globalization is developing. From Seattle to Genoa, protesters travel to every meeting of international economic institutions to denounce global markets. What's the real story of globalization? Is it a "race to the bottom," as the critics of capitalism insist? Or a race to the top, as Tomas Larsson suggests? Instead of debates among theoreticians and...
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On the same day that reporter Jeffrey Kaye visited the Tondo hospital in northwest Manila, members of an employees association wearing hospital uniforms rallied in the outside courtyard demanding pay raises. The nurses at the hospital took home about $261 a month, while in the United States, nurses earn, on average, more than fifteen times that rate of pay. No wonder so many of them leave the Philippines.
Between 2000 and 2007, nearly 78,000 qualified...
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The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has blasted livelihoods, inspired protests, and toppled governments. It has also highlighted the profound moral concerns long surrounding globalization. Did materialist excess, doctrinaire embrace of free trade and capital flows, and indifference to economic injustice contribute to the disaster of the last decade? Was it ethical to bail out banks and governments while innocent people suffered?...
18) Endgame Apocalypse WW3 Will President Trump start World War 3? And why should liberals stop worry
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Will the division caused by Trump's presidency and unification of all faiths, lead to a holy war that could destroy all organized religion for good?
In this book, Kurt Robertson describes how a war between Russia and its allies and America and their allies could start in the Middle East expanding throughout the western world.
Leading to a global war, a new crusade between fanatics and terrorists versus Interfaith headed by the Vatican.
He explores...
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Nandigram, a riverine village in southern West Bengal, is well known all over the globe after the tragedy in 2007 on the conflicting issue of proposed land acquisition for petrochemical hub. The movement itself is an account of the peoples' reaction to such acquisition drive irrespective of location and community involved. This book is an illustrative document on the state of post-violence Nandigram with a logical interpretation of an empirical research....
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En el presente ensayo, David Montesinos analiza la importancia de las obras de Naomi Klein (Canadá, 1970) sobre la deriva del capitalismo contemporáneo. Desde la publicación de No logo (2000) y La doctrina del shock (2007), Naomi Klein criticó las prácticas más opresivas del capitalismo y sus dolorosas consecuencias sobre millones de personas. Hoy sabemos que la destrucción acelerada del medio ambiente forma parte de la misma lógica de expansión...
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