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2004 Global Envision Reader

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Posted on March 14, 2003
Previously filed under: Book and Film Reviews
Last year's Global Envision Reader includes many books that remain timely and important contributions to the conversation about globalization.


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



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Ivo Andric, Bosnia Chronicle



Arjun Appadural, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization



William Baumol, The Free-Market Innovation Machine



Peter Berger, Samuel Huntington (Editors), Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World



Jagdish Bhagwati, The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization



Jagdish Bhagwati, Protectionism



Paul Blustein, The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF



Teresa Brennan, Globalisation and Its Terrors



Patrick Buchanan, Sovereignity and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of Global Economy



Gary Burtless, Globalphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade



Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture



William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics



The Economist, Globalisation - Making Sense of an Integrating World



Michael Edwards, Future Positive: International Cooperation in the 21st Century



Bill Emmott, 20:21 Vision: Twetieth Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century



Thomas L. Friedman, Longitudes and Attitudes



Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order



Jeffrey E. Garten, The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders



John Gray, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism



Robert Gilpin, The Challenge of Global Capitalism



Mikhail Gorbachev, Facets of Globalization: Difficult Issues of Contemporary Development



Andy Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive



James Gwartney and Robert Lawson with Walter Park and Charles Skipton, Economic Freedom of the World: 2001 Annual Report



David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace



Lawrence E. Harrison (Editor) Samuel P. Huntington (Editor), Culture Matters : How Values Shape Human Progress



Ethan Kapstein, Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy



Micheal T. Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict



Tomas Larsson, The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization



Frank Lechner and John Boli, The Globalization Reader



Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World



Marc Lindenberg and Coralie Bryant, Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs



Brink Lindsey, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism



Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist



Theodore H. Moran, Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Countries



Peter Nolan, China and the Global Economy: National Champions, Industrial Policy and the Big Revolution



Joseph Nye, The Paradox of American Power



Mancur Olson, Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships



Patrick O'Meara, Howard Mehlinger, Matthew Krain (Editors), Globalization and the Challenge of the New Century: A Reader



Nicanor Perlas, Shaping Globalization



Jonathan R. Pincus and Jeffrey A. Winters, Reinventing the World Bank

Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress



Robert Putnam (Editor), Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society



David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation



Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone too Far?



Jeffrey D. Sachs, Developing Country Debt and the World Economy: A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report.



Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo



Amartya Sen, Development As Freedom



Jan Aart Scholte, Albrecht Schnabel, Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation)



Joseph Schumpter, Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy



John R. Short and Yeong-Hyun Kim, Globalization and the City



George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered



George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism



Lester C. Thurow, The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape Tomorrow's Future



Ian Vasquez, Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism



Patrick Watt, Social Investment and Economic Growth



Daniel Yergin, The Commanding Heights: the Battle Between Government & the Marketplace That is Remaking the Modern World



Muhammed Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty



G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism's Winners and Losers




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