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  • Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads

    Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis

    Edited by Chris Jochnick, Fraser A. Preston ...
    Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Africa, and the spectacular default and economic implosion of Argentina have helped spur a global debate over ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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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

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Euro

    How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro.When Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz posed this question in the original edition of The Euro, he lent much-needed clarity to a global debate that continues to this day. The euro was supposed to unify Europe and promote prosperity; in fact, it has done just the opposite ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • 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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  • Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System

    The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System (EBOOK)

    by Sara Eisen ...
    From the brightest minds in the field—a revealing look at how countries use their currencies to achieve prosperity . . . and the coming repercussionsBloomberg Television's Sara Eisen sheds light on the complex global financial system through this illuminating collection of essays. She hand selected the crème de la crème of authors from the world's most prestigious academic institutions and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Euro Crisis and Its Aftermath

    by Jean Pisani-Ferry ...
    The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises. The eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010 took European policymakers by surprise and forced them to design responses to a quickly deteriorating situation. Even though Europe has final begun to stabilize, the disparity between the prosperous Northern countries, especially Germany, and ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Singapore: a Case Study in Rapid Development

    by Kenneth Mr. Bercuson ...
    Series Book 119 - Occasional Papers
    Since attaining independence in 1965 Singapore has experienced exceptionally rapid growth, low inflation, and a healthy balance of payments. This paper reviews Singapore's economic development from a long-term perspective and examines some of the factors that have contributed to the sustained rapid growth ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Against the Consensus

    Reflections on the Great Recession

    by Justin Yifu Lin ...
    In June 2008, Justin Yifu Lin was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank, right before the eruption of the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing on experience from his privileged position, Lin offers unique reflections on the cause of the crisis, why it was so serious and widespread, and its likely evolution. Arguing that conventional theories provide ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Africa's Odious Debts

    How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

    by Professor Léonce Ndikumana, James K. Boyce ...
    Series series African Arguments
    In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is remarkable: more than $700 billion in the past four decades. But Africa's foreign assets remain ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • One From the Many

    The Global Economy Since 1850

    by Christopher M. Meissner ...
    Amid a recent surge in arguments that the global economy has begun to "de-globalize," a question has emerged: will globalization survive? In One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850, Christopher M. Meissner argues that based on the long-run of history, globalization will not be easily vanquished. This brief introduction to the economic history of the global economy and the process of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Currency Politics

    The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy

    by Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    A comprehensive analysis of the politics surrounding exchange rate policies in the global economy—with in-depth case studies.The exchange rate is the most important price in any nation's economy, and a central factor in the global economy. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few definitive explanations of why governments choose the currency policies they do. In Currency ... Read more

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  • Turnaround

    Third World Lessons for First World Growth

    by Peter Blair Henry ...
    Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries have turned themselves around, while First World nations, battered by crises, depend more than ever on sustained growth in emerging markets.In Turnaround, economist Peter Blair Henry argues that the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD