Globalization
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Author:Traoré, Aminata DramaneSummary: - Author:Traoré, AminataSummary:
Un essai qui dénonce le sort politique, économique et social réservé à l'Afrique noire engendré par sa soumission économique, ses relations avec l'Europe impérialiste et un processus de mondialisation. L'auteure plaide pour la...
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Author:Blaser, Mario, De Costa, Ravi, McGregor, Deborah, Coleman, William D.Summary:The passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 focused attention on the ways in which Indigenous peoples are adapting to the pressures of globalization and development. This volume extends the discussion...
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Author:Estulin, DanielSummary:On November 8, 2016, the seemingly impossible became real: Donald Trump---billionaire tycoon with fundamentally xenopobic, savage, and populist speech---won the presidency and began endangering values like democracy and world peace....
- Author:Knox, Paul L.Summary:
A distinctly modern look at human geography
Described as “fresh, innovative, and intelligent,” Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context is acclaimed for its global approach, conceptual rigor,...
- Author:Drache, Daniel, Jacobs, Lesley A.Summary:
Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This volume introduces the concept of “grey zones” of global governance, where state policy and market behaviour interact with...
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Author:Duflo, Esther, Banerjee, Abhijit V.Summary:Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world. This precise but accessible book covers many of the most essential issues...
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Author:Ellwood, WayneSummary:Globalization has an ever-increasing effect on our lives. It has made the world smaller and brought us closer together yet it can also make us more vulnerable and divided. The deregulation of finance and banking and the crisis they led...
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Author:Steger, Manfred B.Summary:Globalization' has become the buzz-word of our time - a term that describes a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are transforming our experience of the world, Fully updated...
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Author:Frieden, Jeffry A.Summary:International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before--such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people...
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Author:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSummary:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. In...
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Author:Bernstein, JaredSummary:Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What’s a “...
- Author:Bernstein, JaredSummary:
Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment...
- Author:Klein, PaulSummary:
An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world's most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and shareholder value are no longer the primary metric of...
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Author:Masaeli, Mahmoud, Munro, Lauchlan T.Summary:Comment se déploient les interventions du Canada en matière de développement international et de mondialisation ? Bien au-delà de l’aide à l’étranger, celles-ci touchent la diplomatie, le commerce, les finances, l’aide, l’immigration,...
- Author:Walia, HarshaSummary:
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts...
- Author:Kulik, Sergey, Maslennikov, Nikita, Yurgens, IgorSummary:
Globalization proceeds apace, taking on new forms that impact global economic, financial and social processes. Interdependence is not simply strengthening the range of possibilities for national economies to participate in, and...
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Author:Wong, JanSummary:Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom...
- Author:Ghemawat, PankajSummary:
Reeling from the brutal impacts of the early 21st-century recession, governments and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increased protectionism. Global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat details why, while this...
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