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From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization

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Report copyright infringementby Finbarr Livesey (Author)This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization wil...

Ally Is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

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Report copyright infringementby Rose Lemay (Author)Your next step on the journey of reconciliation starts here. What can you do to be a better ally for your Indigenous colleagues, community members, and friends? By actively listening to the history and current lived experiences of Indigenous peoples, you can take steps to address the inequities they continue to face. Author Rose LeMay notes that if you continually educate yourself, you will see many opportunities to be an ally. This insightfu...

Crushing Capitalism: How Populist Policies Are Threatening the American Dream

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Report copyright infringementby Norbert J. Michel (Author)Have you heard this narrative? The middle class has been hollowed out because of an overreliance on free markets. Americans can't compete with low-cost labor and imports, so all the good jobs in America have disappeared, especially those in manufacturing. It's a dismal argument that many politicians, even some on the right, have spent the last few years spinning. They say that the American Dream is dying, and that only wealthy American...

The Bird and the Cage: China's Economic Contradictions

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Borst (Author)The Chinese Communist Party's complex and contradictory embrace of capitalism has played a pivotal role in shaping China's economic reforms since the late 1970s. This book explores the persistent tensions between state control and market forces in China. It shows how these tensions provide a framework to understand Xi Jinping's recent efforts to tighten control over the Chinese economy. The book evaluates the broader implications of these...

What We Can Do: A Climate Optimist's Guide to Sustainable Living

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Sellars (Author)In this radically optimistic climate change book, find yourself empowered to achieve sustainable living across every facet of your life--the personal, the professional, and the political."Never has decisive action on climate and environment been more important. This book will help citizens all across America understand that while no one can do everything, everyone can do something--and offers a myriad of ways they can get started too."--...

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Report copyright infringementby Torsten Persson (Author), Guido Tabellini (Author)The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy; the book is an uncompromisingly empirical sequel to their previous theoretical analysis of economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as a point of departure, they ask which theoretical findings are supported and which are contradicted by t...

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Report copyright infringementby Landry Signe (Author)Realizing Africa's Potential: A Journey to Prosperity identifies the trends, opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success in Africa's emerging industries and sectors.Author BiographyLandry Sign? is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program and Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings. He is a professor and executive director at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, distinguished fellow at Stanford University...

Making Financial Globalization: How Firms Shape International Regulatory Cooperation

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Report copyright infringementby Clara Park (Author)In Making Financial Globalization, Clara Park challenges the conventional wisdom that finance has always been global. Drawing on original datasets of financial trade restrictions and domestic financial regulations in over 100 countries, archival research of international negotiations, and case studies of the US and China, Park details how financial firms used multilateral lobbying strategies to create an international framework for financial ...

The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush

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Report copyright infringementby Steven G. Calabresi (Author), Christopher S. Yoo (Author)This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of the unitary executive. This theory-that the Constitution gives the president the power to remove and control all policy-making subordinates in the executive branch-has been the subject of heated debate since the Reagan years. To determine whether the Constitution creates a strongly unita...

The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen III Meyer (Author)In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, he introduced the Model T and met with extraordinary commercial success. Between 1910 and 1914, he developed mass production and made the conveyor a symbol of the auto-industrial age. Then, in 1914, Ford acquired an overnight reputation as humanitarian, philanthropist and social reformer; and simultaneously infuriated the business communit...

Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

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Report copyright infringementby Pepper D. Culpepper (Author)Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs, and th...

Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It

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Report copyright infringementby Andre M. Perry (Author)From the creator of "a unified field theory of racism" (NPR's Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap Historically, Black Americans' quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownership--of one's...

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - Paperback

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by Christian Brose (Author)From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's traditional sources of power are eroding amid the emergence of new te...

China in the Caribbean: Trade, Investment, and Geopolitical Influence

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Hosein (Author), Bhoendradatt Tewarie (Author), Rebecca Gookool-Bosland (Author)China has been connected with the Caribbean community (CARICOM), and wider region for an extensive period. This relationship dates back to the colonial period of indentureship, when Chinese immigrants were brought to the region to work on sugar plantations. This historically enabled migration to the region which, over the years, has buoyed and indigenized various sectors of th...

Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric de Leon (Author)Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement. Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white union activists. In Freedom Train, Cedric de Leon, a former organizer and elected leader in the US labor movement, argues that we can't comprehend the history of workers' triumphs in the United States without investigating the role of Black liberation. This book shows that, from...

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Author), Ramon Pacheco Pardo (Author)In Startup Capitalism, Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Ramon Pacheco Pardo explore the place of startups in contemporary East Asian economies. The last few decades have seen East Asian governments provide increasing support for startups--new, high-growth, technologically oriented firms. Yet, as the authors observe, such initiatives do not necessarily benefit the growth of startups as challengers to large, esta...

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Menedis (Author)Why the World Doesn't Make Sense: Reclaiming the Liberty You Didn't Know You Lost by Christine Menedis is a provocative call to action, challenging readers to confront the forces shaping our future and reclaim their freedom and independence in a rapidly changing world. Why the World Doesn't Make Sense is a compelling exploration of the hidden forces undermining personal freedom and sovereignty in today's world. Christine Menedis, an ea...

Make Things In America: How Tax Reform Can Reduce The Burden On American Workers

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Report copyright infringementby James R. Olsen (Author)Tax Reform puts money in the pockets of American Workers and the businesses that hire them. The result is a more productive and competitive workforce. We are told the tax burdens on the American Worker are axioms of capitalism. The burden gets heavier every year. Some are so disgusted they want to throw capitalism out the window. Politicians have applied so many band-aids that our economy looks like an Egyptian mummy. We've gotten trickle...

Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society: An Alternative Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and the Transition Towards It

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Report copyright infringementby Geert Reuten (Author)What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic transition to it. In Reuten's convincing design, Workers constitute the single economic class. However, unlike in capitalism, there is no class that owns the means of production. The legal structure of worker cooperatives is ...

Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights: A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832

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Report copyright infringementby Toke S. Aidt (Author), Rapha?l Franck (Author)Author BiographyToke S. Aidt is Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, and a CESIfo Research Associate. He is the former president of the European Public Choice Society and editor of European Journal of Political Economy (2014-23). His primary research interests lie in the area of political economics and public choice with a particular focus on democratisation, publi...

The Fragility of Merit: Presidential Power and the Civil Service Under Trump

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Report copyright infringementby J. Edward Kellough (Author)While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effectiveness of government are substantial. The Fragility of Merit provides a detailed examination of the importance of a professionally competent and politically neutral public service.Illustrating the fundamental fragility of the federal civil service in the United States and the underlying con...

Making of an Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret of Rapid Industrialization

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Report copyright infringementby Yi Wen (Author)The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (...

Citizens and Service Delivery: Assessing the Use of Social Accountability Approaches in Human Development Sectors

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Report copyright infringementby Dena Ringold (Author), Alaka Holla (Author), Margaret Koziol (Author)"In many low and middle income countries, dismal failures in the quality of public service delivery such as absenteeism among teachers and doctors and leakages of public funds have driven the agenda for better governance and accountability. This has raised interest in the idea that citizens can contribute to improved quality of service delivery by holding policy-makers and providers of service...

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

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Report copyright infringementby Diane Coyle (Author)Why our economy is cheating the future-and what we can do about it The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these ...

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

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Report copyright infringementby Batya Ungar-Sargon (Author)A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland."Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way."--G...

Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas D. Kristof (Author), Sheryl Wudunn (Author)An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise--a "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened t...

Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Z. Garrod (Author)The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis produced diverse solutions, from nationalizing banks to increasing government spending and taxing capital. However, these proposals all faced significant obstacles in being realized. Industry lobbying has since weakened reforms, leading to ineffective policies, raising the larger question of how to understand our current period of globalization where older strategies are ineffective but new solut...

The Real Retirement Crisis: Why (Almost) Everything You Know about the Us Retirement System Is Wrong

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew G. Biggs (Author)Americans, and the elected officials who represent them, are worried about retirement. Majorities of Americans tell pollsters they fear a "retirement crisis" of inadequate savings and incomes in old age. Some argue that our system of 401(k)s and individual retirement accounts layered on top of a base income from Social Security is an abject failure. Only a complete reboot that expands Social Security and abandons 401(k)s can avert the re...

Exploring Global Trade & Singapore's Place World Connector

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Report copyright infringementby Chong Meng Tan (Author)Mr Tan Chong Meng is the Institute of Policy Studies' 14th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his three IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from March to May 2024, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience.Supply chain management has gained increased prominence in light of disruption caused by COVID-19, the unpredictable US-China trade war, and the Red Sea cris...

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Strategic Planning and Decision-Making for Public and Non-Profit Organizations

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Report copyright infringementby Nicolas A. Valcik (Author)This book provides administrators in public and non-profit organizations with direction and a framework from which to lead their organizations effectively. Taking a global approach to the issues administrators need to examine when managing a group of employees at any level (including budgeting and expenditures, forecasting, policy creation and execution, communication and reporting), this book explores the driving forces in organizatio...

The Price of the Common Good: Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Hoipkemier (Author)The Price of the Common Good offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests.There is more at stake in market economies than self-interest or making money. Lying just below the surface, there are shared projects answering the deepest political questions of how we live together and who we become. The Price of the Common Good exposes the inadequacies of the prevailing individualistic visi...