2006 Global Envision Reader

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The 2006 Global Envision Reader features some of the best new titles for learning more about the global economy.


This evolving list highlights recent literature on globalization. Please submit a book review or your suggestions for other good books.

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C. Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek Mitchell, China The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower
Public Affairs (April, 2006)
256pp.




Lester R. Brown, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
W.W. Norton (January 23, 2006)
352pp.




Robert Calderisi, The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
Palgrave MacMillan (March 2, 2006)
256pp.




Daniel Cohen, Globalization and Its Enemies
The MIT Press (April 14, 2006)
256pp.




William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
The Penguin Press HC (March 16, 2006)
448pp.




Ted C. Fishman, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Scribner (April 11, 2006)
368pp.




Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
Yale University Press (February, 2006)
240pp.




Steve Hamm, Bangalore Tiger
McGraw-Hill (September 19, 2006)
288pp.




Martin Meredith, The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
Public Affairs (June 26, 2006)
752pp.




Frederic S. Mishkin, The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich
Princeton University Press (August 21, 2006)
320pp.




Joseph S. Nye, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Public Affairs (April 26, 2006)
191pp.




Lant Pritchett, Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Center for Global Development (September 15, 2006)
151pp.




George Rupp, Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community
Columbia University Press (November 15, 2006)
114pp.




Amartya Sen and Henry Louis Gates (Series Editor), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
W.W. Norton (March 27, 2006)
224pp.




Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
W.W. Norton (September 18, 2006)
384pp.




Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
Oxford University Press U.S.A. (January 5, 2006)
352pp.




David Warsh, Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
W.W. Norton (May 1, 2006)
320pp.




Worldwatch Insitute, State of the World 2006
W.W. Norton (January 16, 2006)
272pp.



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