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  • World Market Transformation

    Inside the German Fur Capital Leipzig 1870 and 1939

    by Robrecht Declercq ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    To the surprise of many, regionally embedded clusters of small to medium sized businesses have continued to exist in spite of industrialisation and mass production. While scholars have discovered that the advantages of embeddedness in terms of industrialisation were situated in interfirm cooperation and conflict resolving mechanisms, it is far less clear how changing historical circumstances on ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Born with a Copper Spoon

    A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980

    Edited by Robrecht Declercq, Duncan Money, Hans Otto Frøland ...
    Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper – essential for light, power, and communication – have demanded ever-increasing quantities of the metal. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced, distributed, controlled, and sold on a global scale. However, this is not simply a narrative of ever-increasing and deepening global connections. It is also ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Divide

    Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Global Company

    Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World

    by Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fitzgerald explores the major role of multinational enterprises in the events of world history, from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how the growth of businesses that operated across ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Africa: Crude Continent

    The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

    by Duncan Clarke ...
    Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a worldwide private advisory firm with vintage of around 40 years, the story told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. Born in Salisbury, 1948, and raised in Rhodesia, he gained the PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975. He has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to governments and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Making Africa Work

    A Handbook

    by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis ...
    Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile devices. Properly harnessed and planned for, this is a tremendously positive force for change. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Discipline

    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Escape from Empire

    The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell

    by Alice H. Amsden ...
    A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Great Brexit Swindle

    Why the mega-rich and free market fanatics conspired to force Britain from the European Union

    by T. J. Coles ...
    In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the Conservative party is a powerful group of globalists and financial traders. Their political ideology is neoliberalism – a worldwide agenda that seeks to deregulate markets and maximize profits for global elites at the expense of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadow Courts

    The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade

    by Haley Sweetland Edwards ...
    A detailed look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements.International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague.In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards focuses on one ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $22.99 CAD