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  • Mortgaging the Earth

    The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development

    by Bruce Rich ...
    The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was supposed to be a turning point for the World Bank. Environmental concerns would now play a major role in its lending—programs and projects would go beyond economic development to “sustainable development.” More than two decades later, efforts to green the bank seem pallid.Bruce Rich argues that the Bank’s current institutional problems are extensions of flaws that had ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Foreclosing the Future

    The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

    by Bruce Rich ...
    World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has vowed that his institution will fight poverty and climate change, a claim that World Bank presidents have made for two decades. But if worldwide protests and reams of damning internal reports are any indication, too often it does just the opposite. By funding development projects and programs that warm the planet and destroy critical natural resources on which ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $17.99 USD

  • Mortgaging the Earth

    World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development

    by Bruce Rich ...
    This critique of World Bank operations examines the effects of this organization on the societies in which it operates. Highly critical of the Bank's practices in its 50 years of operation, the author demonstrates how the Bank has become virtually unaccountable and a law unto itself. He describes how the Bank has supported oppressive regimes and loaned money to support large projects which have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • To Uphold the World

    A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India

    by Bruce Rich ...
    In 1991, Bruce Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by the Indian emperor Ashoka over 2,200 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, conservation, nonviolence, species protection, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka's world. Ashoka was a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war, yet his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Neoliberalism and Global Order

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  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... Read more

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  • The Elusive Quest for Growth

    Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

    by William R. Easterly ...
    EXPLORING THE DETRIMENTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH: Why have economists’ attempts to help poorer countries failed?“It is impossible to convey the depth and range of The Elusive Quest for Growth.” —The Wall Street JournalSince the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North ... Read more

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  • Truth, Errors, and Lies

    Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

    by Grzegorz W. Kolodko ...
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  • In Defense of Globalization

    With a New Afterword

    by Jagdish Bhagwati ...
    In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful ... Read more

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  • Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons From Democratic Transitions

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    Through case studies on Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, and Ukraine, Pathways to Freedom explores the factors and choices that shaped eight transitions—some successful, others less so. Its concise historical analysis and forward-looking prescriptions offer an authoritative and accessible look at what countries must do to build durable and prosperous democracies ... Read more

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  • We Wanted Workers

    Unraveling the Immigration Narrative

    by George J. Borjas ...
    From "America’s leading immigration economist" (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration.We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become ... Read more

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  • Capitalism's Last Stand?

    Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity

    by Walden Bello ...
    'Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineIn this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration ... Read more

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