In this course, University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro dissects the coming China wars and their implications for all mankind. China's rapid economic growth has serious implications for issues ranging from...
International economic relations
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Author:Navarro, PeterSummary: - Author:Rivoli, PietraSummary:
Pietra Rivoli is an economics professor at Georgetown University, where the question "Who made your T-shirt?" set her on a quest. On her journey she found that globalization is just as much about history and politics as it is about...
- Author:Ellwood, WayneSummary:
Fully updated, this new edition of a best-selling No-Nonsense Guide examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the "free trade" model; competition for energy resources; the links between the "war on...
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Author:Rubin, JeffSummary:Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole....
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Author:Meredith, RobynSummary: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...
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Author:Chermack, Thomas J.Summary:Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully...
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Author:Mason, PaulSummary:Over the past two centuries, capitalism has undergone profound changes from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big that this time...
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Author:Glenny, MishaSummary:Now a major television series starring James Norton (War & Peace, Happy Valley) and created by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and film director Hossein Amini (Drive) and James Watkins (The Woman in Black), co-produced by BBC, AMC, and...
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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:Biddulph, Sarah, Biuković, LjiljanaSummary:
With isolationism and protectionism strengthening in response to the forces of globalization, the interrelationship of the national and supranational in shaping good governance norms has become increasingly relevant. Good Governance in...
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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: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:Barry, Donald, Applebaum, Bob, Wiseman, EarlSummary:Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international relationship, from the extension...
- Author:Johnson, StevenSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of a pirate who changed the world. Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die...
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Author:Swift, Jamie, Tomlinson, BrianSummary:Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada's role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted...
- Author:Bullough, OliverSummary:
This program is read by the author. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the...
- Author:Gordon, Todd, Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the...
- 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...
- 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...
