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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Instead of listening to pundits, politicians, and protestors, you could see firsthand how everyone from migrant workers to central bank governors lived their lives. Then you could decide for yourself where the big trends were heading.
Now you can. Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn't another polemic for or against globalization. Daniel Altman...
8) World trade
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Describes why trading between countries started, how the world depends on the trading of goods and services to fill different needs, and why some people feel open trading between countries is harming our country's economy.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history - from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Covid-19 crisis - James shows how crashes prompted by a lack of supply,...