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  • The Case for Carbon Dividends

    by James K. Boyce ...
    The supreme challenge of our time is tackling climate change. We urgently need to curtail our use of fossil fuels – but how can we do so in a just and feasible way?In this compelling book, leading economist James Boyce shows that the key to solving this conundrum is to put a limit on carbon emissions, thereby raising the price of fossil fuels and generating strong incentives for clean energy. But ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa

    The Takers and the Enablers

    Edited by James K. Boyce, Léonce Ndikumana ...
    On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa investigates the dynamics of capital flight from Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, and South Africa, countries that have witnessed large-scale illicit financial outflows in recent decades. Quantitative, qualitative, and institutional analysis for each country is used to examine the modus operandi of capital flight; that is, the 'who', 'how', and 'where' dimensions ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Africa's Odious Debts

    How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

    by Professor Léonce Ndikumana, James K. Boyce ...
    Series series African Arguments
    In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is remarkable: more than $700 billion in the past four decades. But Africa's foreign assets remain ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Investing in Peace

    Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars

    by James K. Boyce ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate the peace. The book explores how aid can encourage domestic investment in peace-related needs; the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Tax Havens

    How Globalization Really Works

    by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    If you are looking to understand how tax havens and offshore financial centers work, how they are governed (or not!), and what kind of economic and political impacts they have, then this book is for you! This recent text by well-recognized experts in the field is a most welcome addition to the literatures.... It fills an important void, since there was not until now a general but nevertheless ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    by William Sacher, Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • America for Sale

    Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty

    by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. ...
    A RESOUNDING CALL TO DEFEND AMERICA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND SAVE OUR NATION FROM GLOBAL ECONOMIC TAKEOVER -- FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBAMA NATION AND THE LATE GREAT USABetween President George W. Bush's "new world order" and the unprecedented governmental growth and massive redistribution of wealth under President Barack Obama, the United States risks losing the greatest ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Trends and Impacts of Foreign Investment in Developing Country Agriculture: Evidence from Case Studies

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Substantial increases in agricultural investments in developing countries are needed to combat poverty and realize food security and nutrition goals. In order to acquire an in-depth understanding of potential benefits, constraints and costs of foreign investment in agriculture and of the business models that are more conducive to development, FAO has undertaken research in developing countries. ... Read more

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  • Bill Gates, Pay Your Fair Share of Taxes...Like We Do!

    by Brigitte Alepin ...
    Bill Gates and other wealthy individuals around the world do pay taxes--but usually at rates far below what most taxpayers pay. As Warren Buffet says, his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does on his multi-million dollar income. And most big corporations have mastered the art of paying next to nothing in taxes.Many experts and financial journalists dismiss the idea that higher taxes for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Failed

    What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy

    by Mark Weisbrot, Mark Weisbrot ...
    Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures? Why was Latin ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Tanzania: The Story of an African Transition

    by Roger Mr. Nord, Yuri Mr. Sobolev, David G. Mr. Dunn, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Niko Mr. Hobdari, Samar Maziad, Stéphane Roudet ...
    In 1985, Tanzania was in severe economic distress, plagued by widespread shortages and high inflation. Agricultural production, the mainstay of the economy, had been declining steadily since the 1970s. Exports of cash crops, which traditionally accounted for the bulk of foreign exchange earnings, had fallen by half between 1970 and 1985. A foreign exchange shortage led to a precipitous drop in ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank

    Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers

    by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet ...
    Mainstream economists tell us that developing countries will replicate the economic achievements of the rich countries if they implement the correct “free-market”policies. But scholars and activists Toussaint and Millet demonstrate that this is patently false. Drawing on a wealth of detailed evidence, they explain how developed economies have systematically and deliberately exploited the less ... Read more

    $18.99 USD