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2007 Global Envision Reader

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Posted on December 14, 2007
Previously filed under: Book and Film Reviews
The 2007 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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The Global Economy


Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Oxford University Press (April 27, 2007)
224pp.

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Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Penguin Press HC, The (September 17, 2007)
544pp.


General Globalization


Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
Yale University Press; 1 edition (May 28, 2007)
416pp.

Read our Book Review.




Dani Rodrik, One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Princeton University Press (September 24, 2007)
278pp.




Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Picador (July 24, 2007)
672pp.




David Held and Anthony McGrew, Globalization/Anti-Globalization
Polity; 2 edition (November 28, 2007)
304pp.


Poverty Solutions and Entrepreneurship


David Bornstein, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Oxford University Press, USA; Updated edition (August 8, 2007)
368pp.




Philip Smith and Eric Thurman, A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty
McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 7, 2007)
224pp.


Region Specific


Princeton N. Lyman and Patricia Dorff (Editors), Beyond Humanitarianism: What You Need to Know About Africa and Why it Matters
Council on Foreign Relations (September 1, 2007)
252pp.




Vinay Rai and William Simon, Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
Dutton Adult (August 16, 2007)
304pp.




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Mon, 01/05/2009 - 11:40 — Anonymous in California

Good books

What about the books by Robert A. Erickson, "Fluke Family Fortune", "Fluke Family Hero" and "Fluke Family King"?


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