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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
China's African challenges	Sarah Raine	China's relations with African nationals have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China's oil imports, and China is Africa's second-largest single…	OL11166W
Equity and development	Berlin Workshop (7th 2004)	World Development Report 2006 analyzes the relationship between equity and development. The report documents the persistence of inequality traps by highlighting the interaction between different form…	OL12838237W
Global liberalism and its casualties	Jean Kachiga	"This work examines the premise of liberal economic principles and their promise of distributive advantages to all free market participants. Professor Jean Kachiga's critique is substantiated by the …	OL12960973W
Introducción a la Economía Internacional	Ramón Tamames	Las sucesivas ediciones de «Estructura Económica Internacional», publicada originalmente en 1970, fueron dando mayor complejidad y extensión a la obra, incorporada actualmente a la colección Alianza …	OL15915005W
Risk rules	Marvin Zonis	"Risk Rules is a comprehensive updating of the authors' critically praised The Kimchi Matters (Agate B2, 2005). The authors, a group of present and former University of Chicago political risk experts…	OL16214106W
World on Fire	Amy Chua	The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz; the most original contribution to the globalisation debate in years.Amy Chua's remarkab…	OL5746292W
The complete idiot's guide to global economics	Craig Hovey	Think outside the borders.Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and swe…	OL5847584W
Handbook on China's WTO accession and its impacts	Ching, Cheong.	"It has taken China 15 long years of tough negotiations to achieve accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). By becoming a full member of the WTO, China has in fact made three tiers of commitm…	OL5857047W
The world economy	Robert M. Yarbrough,Beth V. Yarbrough	xxviii, 957 p. : 25 cm	OL58592W
The Shock Doctrine	Naomi Klein	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advoc…	OL6017238W
Wal-Mart World	Stanley D. Brunn	Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As Wal-Mart World shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of years, Wal-Mart has been the largest company in the Uni…	OL6338466W
Europe, America, Bush	John Peterson	The transatlantic partnership has been one of the most enduring of all international alliances. Even after the Cold War ended, the United States and its European partners intensified their economic a…	OL6921045W
The national interest	Edgar J. Dosman	An examination of public pronouncements regarding the Mackenzie Valley pipeline which are at variance with the facts.	OL6939136W
Economic development	I. M. D. Little	After four decades of theorizing, planning, and experiment, what lessons have been learned about the possibilities and limits of development economics? And what lessons remain to be learned - by the …	OL8016875W
The Emergence of the Global Political Economy	Willia Thompson	The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead this volume asserts that the current global political …	OL8095812W
National Purpose in the World Economy	Rawi Abdelal	"How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theore…	OL8297494W
World Trade (Exploring Business and Economics)	John Burgess	"World Trade" by John Burgess is a young person's introduction to international trade and globalization. It has chapters on how trade began, why people trade, and international products, among others…	OL8387031W
The David Icke guide to the global conspiracy (and how to end it)	David Icke	The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy investigates and examines many subjects and aspects of the "conspiracy" and "connects the dots". The picture that appears once you understand how it all …	OL8726664W
When giants fall	Michael J. Panzner	In When Giants Fall, Panzner makes his case for the turbulent economic changes that will be occurring over the next few years and examines the resulting economic opportunities. According to Panzne…	OL8776708W
The Global City	Saskia Sassen	This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sa…	OL94054W