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  • Trans-Pacific Partnership

    An Assessment

    Edited by Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs, Jeffrey Schott ...
    Series series Policy Analyses in International Economics
    The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The essays in this Policy Analysis provide estimates of the TPP's benefits and costs and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    A Global Problem

    by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs, Jeffrey Schott, Martin Vieiro, Erika Wada ...
    Series series Policy Analyses in International Economics
    In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of protection (tariffs and quotas). As a result, economists underestimated the incidence of new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Globalisation and Emerging Economies

    Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa

    by Collective ...
    OECD countries still dominate the world economy, but their share of world trade dropped from 73% in 1992 to 64% in 2005, and some of the world’s most important economies are not members of the OECD. Foremost among these are the so-called BRIICS: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa.This book analyses key elements of the trade performance of the BRIICS in relation to the rest of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Edge of Chaos

    Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Corruption and Government

    Causes, Consequences, and Reform

    by Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bonnie J. Palifka ...
    The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and the World Bank's decision to give anti-corruption policy a key place on its agenda. Time has ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Africa's Silk Road: China And India's New Economic Frontier

    by Broadman Harry G. ...
    China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a significant opportunity for growth and integration of the Sub-Saharan continent into the global economy. Africa's Silk Road finds that China and India's South-South commerce with Africa is about far more than ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • No Trade Is Free

    Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers

    by Robert Lighthizer ...
    America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late.One of the most consequential U.S. Trade Representatives in our history, Robert Lighthizer led a great reset of American trade policy, a shift that continues to impact the US economy and has endured across Administrations. For more than 40 years, he litigated, negotiated, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    by Jennifer Clapp ...
    Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

    $31.99 USD