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2005 Global Envision Reader

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Posted on September 6, 2005
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The 2005 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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Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization

Bill Bigelow, Bob Peterson (Editors) Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World

John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, Alternatives to Economic Globalization : A Better World Is Possible

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

Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Douglas A. Irwin, Against the Tide

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

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

Sebastian Mallaby, The World's Banker : A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

James H. Mittleman, Out from Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World



C. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

Lester Rowntree et all, Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World



Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time



Manfred B. Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction



Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works



Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

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