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  • The WTO

    Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization

    by Lori Wallach, Michelle Sforza ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law. Wallach and Sforza make clear recommendations for ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD

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  • From Silk to Silicon

    The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

    by Jeffrey E. Garten ...
    Stories of ten historical figures who helped build the long road to globalization, from Genghis Khan to an Intel CEO: "Filled with brilliant vignettes." — The Washington PostThis is the story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the lives and times of ten people who established new connections between people and nations—whether that was their primary goal or not. ... Read more

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  • Before the Lights Go Out

    Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us

    by Maggie Koerth-Baker ...
    What you need to know now about America's energy future"Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety?if the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales of a New America

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    The Harvard political economist argues that Americans must rethink some important cultural myths and self-definitions if the U.S. is to retain its dominant role within the emerging global economy. ... Read more

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  • Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud

    The Politics of Materiality in the European Union

    by Zsuzsa Gille ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, Hungary's worst environmental disaster. In each case, Gille analyzes how practices of production and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • States and the Reemergence of Global Finance

    From Bretton Woods to the 1990s

    by Eric Helleiner ...
    Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Hearts and Mines

    The US Empire’s Culture Industry

    by Tanner Mirrlees ...
    From Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it’s clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Corporate Sovereignty

    Law and Government under Capitalism

    by Joshua Barkan ...
    Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes—and many more—might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. Joshua Barkan writes that these reactions, which view law as a limit on corporations, misunderstand the role of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Silence of the Rational Center

    by Stefan Halper, Jonathan Clarke ...
    What has happened to American foreign policy? Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke argue that the members of what used to be called the foreign policy establishment are no longer doing the job of keeping our foreign policy informed and rational. Instead, hungry to coin the next Big Idea, they are in the business of advancing simplistic, glib mythologies. The result is that Americans are often ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage

    Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos

    by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos ...
    Translated by Henry Gales ...
    Zapatista spokesman Subcommander Marcos decreased his public appearances between 2007 and 2014, but simultaneously increased the depth of his analysis. Collected here in English translation for the first time, these talks include some of his most explicit, detailed, and inspiring criticisms of capitalism, political parties, electoral democracy, disingenuous solidarity, and much more.Subcommander ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

    The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

    by Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen ...
    Modern investment treaties give private arbitrators power to determine whether governments should pay compensation to foreign investors for a wide range of sovereign acts. In recent years, particularly developing countries have incurred significant liabilities from investment treaty arbitration, which begs the question why they signed the treaties in the first place. Through a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • New Strategic Research On China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone

    by Zhigang Yuan ...
    This book provides a detailed study of practices of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ henceforth). It aims to answer questions related to establishing the Shanghai FTZ and improving its practices, such as the future of world's macro-economy, the Shanghai FTZ's position in Chinese and world economy, government transition and international trade upgrading, as well as financial ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD