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  • Economic Ideas in Political Time

    The Rise and Fall of Economic Orders from the Progressive Era to the Global Financial Crisis

    by Wesley W. Widmaier ...
    Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability and crisis. To highlight such dynamics, this volume offers a theory of economic ideas in political time. The author counters paradigmatic and institutionalist views of ideas as enabling self-reinforcing path ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Presidential Rhetoric from Wilson to Obama

    Constructing crises, fast and slow

    by Wesley Widmaier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    Over the past century, presidential constructions of crises have spurred recurring redefinitions of U.S. interests, as crusading advance has alternated with realist retrenchment. For example, Harry Truman and George W. Bush constructed crises that justified liberal crusades in the Cold War and War on Terror. In turn, each was followed by realist successors, as Dwight Eisenhower and Barack Obama ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • 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 ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $18.99 CAD

  • George Soros On Globalization

    by George Soros ...
    Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO are accused of being inefficient and corrupt. Is our global economy as unhealthy, and as unjust, as we think? And what can be done ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Capitalism Hits the Fan

    The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A BREATHTAKINGLY CLEAR ANALYSIS OF TODAY’S ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISIS In this updated edition of Capitalism Hits the Fan, Professor Wolff explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis. This book chronicles one economist’s growing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Capitalism's Crisis Deepens

    Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    "The leading socialist economist in the country" explores the roots of the Great Recession and its immense impact on working people (Cornel West).While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture. Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism's old centers, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

    Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    **An International Bestseller"Accessible, provocative, and highly readable." —Alan Cowell, New York Times**In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization’s new discontents in the United States and Europe. Immediately upon publication, Globalization and Its Discontents became a touchstone in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Why Capitalism?

    by Allan H. Meltzer ...
    A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached the point that many even question capitalism itself. Allan H. Meltzer disagrees, passionately and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, 3rd Edition

    by Wayne Ellwood ...
    Series Book 12 - No-Nonsense Guides
    Fully updated, this new edition of a best-selling No-Nonsense Guide examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the free trade model; competition for energy resources; the links between the war on terror, the arms trade, and privatization; and the emergence of China and India as economic superpowers. Ellwood provides a full analysis of the financial crisis that began in 2007, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD