Globalization

In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization.

A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries.

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It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

What are the Green alternatives to economic globalisation?

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century.

Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky's and Ilan Papp 's clear-sighted analysis of an area in a desperate impasse.

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity.

Only a few years ago, the U.

Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty.

A compelling analysis of how global finance is devouring the food system and gambling with our future in the process.

Capitalism has become the universal social and economic order of our time.

The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end.

The surprising and sometimes scandalous story of twenty-first-century citizenshipThe buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years.

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest.

The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity.

"e;Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock"e;.

A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.

Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong.

A manifesto for a new world order.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands.

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies.

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues.

Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Jamais le passé n’a été aussi présent.

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

"e;The Salvaging of Civilization"e; is a 1921 work by legendary English author H.

*; The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.

While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands.

This edition of Kipling's "e;The Song of the English"e; was originally published in November 1909.

'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence.