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  The Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business

  by Graham Hancock

  A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often fail and demands a response from those in the industry.
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  Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

  by Ha-Joon Chang

  A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global capitalism.   One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang “the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years.” With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit,... (more)
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  Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

  by Douglas Rushkoff

  This didn’t just happen. In Life Inc. , award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it. This fascinating journey, from the late Middle... (more)
• None Dare Call It ConspiracyGary Allen

  

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  None Dare Call It Conspiracy

  by Gary Allen

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  International bureaucracies—highly visible, far-reaching actors of global governance in areas that range from finance to the environment—are often derided as ineffective, inefficient, and unresponsive. Yet despite their prominence in many debates on world politics, little scholarly attention has been given to their actual influence in recent years. Managers of Global Change fills this gap, offering conceptual... (more)
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  Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy

  by Raveendra N. Batra

  An explosive critique of Alan Greenspan's economic policies by New York Times bestselling author Ravi Batra F or two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting expos, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan's... (more)
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  The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos

  by Raveendra N. Batra

  In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity--and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism international bestsellers, Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world... (more)
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  American Theocracy

  The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

  by Kevin P. Phillips

  From America’s premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy , Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United... (more)
• The Swiss BanksT.R. Fehrenbach

  

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  The Swiss Banks

  by T.R. Fehrenbach

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  Dead Aid

  Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

  by Dambisa Moyo

  In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse. In Dead Aid , Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly... (more)
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  Learning from Experience: Perspectives on Poverty Reduction Strategies from Four Developing Countries

  Learning from Experience explores how the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative (PRSI) process is working, as seen from the perspective of four recipient countries. This initiative of the World Bank and IMF was introduced in 1999, with the aim of making aid more effective. It has been implemented in over forty low-income countries. Support for it from international institutions, donors and others, has ranged from... (more)
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  Globalization and Its Discontents

  by Joseph E. Stiglitz

  This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade,... (more)
• Paper MoneyAdam Smith

  

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  Paper Money

  by Adam Smith

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  Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Transnational Institute S.)

  by Walden F. Bello

  A critique of why Third World poverty is so prevalent. Hunger and malnutrition stalk the countries of the South. Over the last 20 years, as the populations of these countries have increased, so too has mass poverty. In this critical study of Western aid giving, Bello offers a pursuasive argument that re-colonization of the Third World has been carried out through the agencies of the International Banks. Bello... (more)
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  The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel

  by David Liss

  David Liss’s bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader , have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting–America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to shape... (more)