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2012 SELECTIONS
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The Revenge
of Geography
By Robert D. Kaplan
Excerpt: Turkey
and the Politics of Water
Will water make Turkey a greater power in the Arab Middle East in
the 21st century than it was in the 20th?
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Plutocrats:
The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
By Chrystia Freeland
Excerpt: The
Rise of the Plutocrats
Why have Americans been so tolerant of the rising gulf between rich
and poor?
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Europe's Unfinished
Currency
By Thomas Mayer
Excerpt: Can
American History Save the Euro?
Can the eurozone successfully model its monetary and fiscal community
on the U.S. political regime of the 19th century?
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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
By Lester Brown
Excerpt: The New Geopolitics of Food
What can be done to help those on the lower rungs of the global economic ladder cope with rising food prices?
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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis And What We Can Do About It
By Timothy Noah
Excerpt: Why It's Impossible To Unionize Walmart
Walmart is the largest private employer in the United States. Why are none of its employees in a union?
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Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power
By Frank Vogl
Excerpt: Natural Resources, Natural Corruption?
How can transparency help end the fleecing of resource-rich countries by their corrupt leaders?
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The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
By Diane Coyle
Excerpt: Ten Steps to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
What policies should governments focus on to ensure that future generations live at least well as the current generation?
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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress
By Lawrence Lessig
Excerpt: Where Have All the Progressives Gone?
Were candidates a hundred years ago more progressive on ending the influence of special interests than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama?
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
By James Rickard
Excerpt: Dubai: The Casablanca of Today?
Is geopolitics the driver of global power relations, or is it really
geotechnology?
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Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization
By Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna
Excerpt: From the Information Age to the Hybrid Age
Is geopolitics the driver of global power relations, or is it really geotechnology?
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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
By Ruchir Sharma
Excerpt: The India-Brazil Axis
Does India have more in common with the chaos and confusion of modern Brazil than with command-and-control China?
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Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Excerpt: AID and the Afghan Cotton Saga
Why would USAID not get behind an effort to turn Afghan farmers from poppy to cotton?
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Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means
By Adair Turner
Excerpt: Don't Leave It to the Economists
Why do economists — and the policymakers who heed their advice — need to reconsider the conventional wisdoms of their profession?
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How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
By Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Excerpt: Exits from the Rat Race
How did mid-century concerns about how economic gains were distributed throughout society give way to today's crisis-prone, Darwinian capitalism?
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The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy
By Richard Duncan
Excerpt: Debunking The Global Savings Glut Theory
Is paper money created by the world's central banks responsible for the "global imbalances" that destabilized the economy?
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But Will the
Planet Notice?
By Gernot Wagner
Excerpt: Air
Travel and Global Warming
Has the EU found a way to get consumers to bear more of the environmental costs of flying?
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Borrow: The American Way of Debt
By Louis Hyman
Excerpt: Ronald Reagan's Raw Deal for America
What is "patriotic" about cutting taxes for the rich? And how is the middle class "empowered" by piling up mountains of debt?
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A Capitalism for the People
By Luigi Zingales
Excerpt: A 21st-Century Italian Immigrant to America
A hundred years after the peak of Italian immigration to the United States, are there still good reasons to immigrate?
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Finance and the Good Society
By Robert J. Shiller
Excerpt: The State of Finance: An Interim Assessment
What can be done so that financial capitalism is a source not of disasters, but of true human progress and democratization?
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Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story
By Dmitri Trenin
Excerpt: The Russian Empire Is Gone For Good
How has Russia's post-Soviet history represented an about-face from its Soviet past?
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The Coming Jobs War
By Jim Clifton
Excerpt: Who Is America's Top Job Creator?
Can you guess the identity of the person responsible for creating the most American jobs over the past 30 years?
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Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power
By Andrew Nagorski
Excerpt: The Woman Who Prevented Hitler's Suicide
How did Hitler's relationship with a young American woman change history in the 20th century?
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The Beautiful and the Damned
By Siddhartha Deb
Excerpt: Indian Women in the Big City
How has the rapid development and globalization of Delhi created new hazards for Indian women?
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Strategic Vision
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Excerpt: The Waning of the American Dream
How is a lack of knowledge of current events, geography and history jeopardizing America's standing in the world?
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The Growth Map
By Jim O'Neill
Excerpt: China: The Optimistic BRIC
How does traveling in China change one's ideas about Chinese communism?
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Why
We Recommend These Books
In our work,
we discover many fascinating books on the global economy, politics
and culture.
To give you
the true flavor of the author and the material, we present an excerpt
from a new book each week on The Globalist Bookshelf.
Rather than
providing a review, we believe that there is nothing better than
allowing the authors to speak for themselves.
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