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Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Tradeby Douglas A. IrwinISBN 0691058962 (0-691-05896-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade'Book summary:The topic of "free trade" is more dense and complex than is usually presented in political debate or in the slogans or bumper stickers that these days often suffice for political discourse. Douglas A. Irwin, a professor of business at the University of Chicago, helps add depth to the discussion with this sweeping study of the business of trade between nations. He begins with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and carries through to some of history's greatest thinkers on the topic of free trade. He shows "how free trade came to occupy ... a commanding position in economics and how free trade has maintained its intellectual strength ... over the past two centuries." It is a timely and needed book. [via]
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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bushby Kevin P. PhillipsISBN 0670032646 (0-670-03264-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Anthropology of Globalization: A Readerby Renato Rosaldo, Jonathan Xavier IndaISBN 0631222332 (0-631-22233-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader'Book summary:The Anthropology of Globalization focuses simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world - from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean and North America - mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. [via]
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The Battle for Godby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0679435972 (0-679-43597-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle for God'Book summary:About 40 years ago popular opinion assumed that religion would become a weaker force and people would certainly become less zealous as the world became more modern and morals more relaxed. But the opposite has proven true, according to theologian and author Karen Armstrong (A History of God), who documents how fundamentalism has taken root and grown in many of the world's major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Even Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism have developed fundamentalist factions. Reacting to a technologically driven world with liberal Western values, fundamentalists have not only increased in numbers, they have become more desperate, claims Armstrong, who points to the Oklahoma City bombing, violent anti-abortion crusades, and the assassination of President Yitzak Rabin as evidence of dangerous extremes.
Yet she also acknowledges the irony of how fundamentalism and Western materialism seem to urge each other on to greater excesses. To "prevent an escalation of the conflict, we must try and understand the pain and perception of the other side," she pleads. With her gift for clear, engaging writing and her integrity as a thorough researcher, Armstrong delivers a powerful discussion of a globally heated issue. Part history lesson, part wake-up call, and mostly a plea for healing, Armstrong's writing continues to offer a religious mirror and a cultural vision. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Groceryby John E. MuellerISBN 0691090823 (0-691-09082-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Children of Immigrationby Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Carola Suarez-OrozcoISBN 0674008383 (0-674-00838-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transitionby Hui Wang, Theodore HutersISBN 0674009320 (0-674-00932-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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China's New Order: Society, Politics, And Economy in Transitionby Theodore HutersISBN 0674021118 (0-674-02111-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Christian Social Ethics in a Global Eraby Peter L. Berger, M. Douglas Meeks, Dennis P. McCann, Max L. StackhouseISBN 0687003350 (0-687-00335-0)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Correctionsby F. JonathanISBN 0613708490 (0-613-70849-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corrections'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The winner of the National Book Awar, now in paperback. [via]
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The Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economyby Linda McQuaigISBN 0670872784 (0-670-87278-4)
Hardcover, Viking
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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Culture Jam: The Uncooling of Americaby Kalle LasnISBN 0688156568 (0-688-15656-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America'Book summary:Adbusters is a magazine that attacks the culture of consumerism by turning its own tactics against it--employing the glossy tactics of advertising to encourage people to take part in "Buy Nothing Day" and "TV Turnoff Week." Culture Jam takes the revolution to another level, as the magazine's publisher, Kalle Lasn, issues a call to arms to "the advance shock troops of the most significant social movement" of the early 21st century. Dissatisfied with the results of both academic and mainstream liberalism and feminism, Lasn harks back to the situationist roots of the 1968 Paris uprisings, a brief moment when it seemed possible that men and women might be able to wholly re-create not only their own lives but society as well.
That revolution stumbled and fell, however, and Lasn views contemporary existence as one in which people have almost entirely succumbed to the cultural mandates of consumer capitalism, turning to corporations for guidance about how to look and what to desire. He offers several tips on how you can "demarket your life," including talking back to telemarketers and intensified boycotts (want to strike a blow against tobacco giant Philip Morris? Stop buying Maxwell House coffees, Kraft dairy products, Post cereals, and Miller beer). Lasn also pushes for the return of corporations to a subordinate role in people's lives, citing the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision that rendered corporations "natural persons" in the eyes of the law as a horrendous miscarriage of justice that must be overturned. (One of his biggest targets is media conglomerates who are able to disseminate their ideology throughout the information spectrum; in an ironic twist of fate, perhaps, the publisher of Culture Jam became a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation scant months before the book's release.)
Culture Jam is an extreme book--among its declarations: "consumer capitalism is by its very nature unethical"--and Lasn's reasoning is not without flaws. One of the weak links in his argument is his insistence that, because none of the major television networks will allow him to purchase airtime for his "subverts," there is "no democracy on the airwaves" and his freedom of speech is being denied. The First Amendment says only that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech"; it says nothing about what he deems the "right to communicate ... through any media." On the other hand, he also raises a more plausible line of attack--since it's the government that grants broadcasters access to the airwaves, citizens should press for more say in how broadcast licenses are distributed. But whatever the book's excesses, Lasn is driven by a righteous anger--and Culture Jam may likely convince you, too, that the models of material success presented to us are not only inadequate to true happiness, they must be overturned. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalizationby James N. RosenauISBN 0691095248 (0-691-09524-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 0618056645 (0-618-05664-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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Earthcurrents: The Struggle for the World's Soulby Howard A. SnyderISBN 0687114497 (0-687-11449-7)
Hardcover, Abingdon Pr
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Economics Explainedby Lester C. Thurow, Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 0671645560 (0-671-64556-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Economics Explained'Book summary:From Wikipedia: Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek ????????? (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from ????? (oikos, "house") + ????? (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)".[1] Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the latter 19th century suggested 'economics' as a shorter term for 'economic science' that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to 'mathematics', 'ethics', and so forth.[2] ~~~ A focus of the subject is how economic agents behave or interact and how economies work. Consistent with this, a primary textbook distinction is between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics examines the behavior of basic elements in the economy, including individual agents (such as households and firms or as buyers and sellers) and markets, and their interactions. Macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy and issues affecting it, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and monetary and fiscal policy. ~~~ Other broad distinctions include those between positive economics (describing "what is") and normative economics (advocating "what ought to be"); between economic theory and applied economics; between rational and behavioral economics; and between mainstream economics (more "orthodox" dealing with the "rationality-individualism-equilibrium nexus") and heterodox economics (more "radical" dealing with the "institutions-history-social structure nexus").[3] ~~~ Economic analysis may be applied throughout society, as in business, finance, health care, and government, but also to such diverse subjects as crime,[4] education,[5] the family, law, politics, religion,[6] social institutions, war,[7] and science.[8] [via]
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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Goingby Robert Heilbroner, Lester ThurowISBN 0684846411 (0-684-84641-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going'Book summary:This updated edition of the definitive introduction to economics addresses urgent topical issues, including the increasing inequality in the distribution of income, the impact of the "globalization" of capitalism, and the far-reaching effects of new technologies.
Containing about 30 percent new material, this edition of Economics Explained offers readers not only an invaluable primer on economic theory, but a clear understanding of the causes and treatments of the problems confronting us today, as well as the possible risks and the potential rewards we face in the future.
"This is the book for anyone who has never taken a course in economics. They take the mystery out of the gross national product, exchange rates, inflation, the money supply, and government spending". -- Library Journal
"An excellent course in the history of capitalism". -- The Boston Globe Books
"At last, a patient but not condescending, detailed but not recondite, conversational but not glib discussion of the factors and terms that any reader of the daily newspaper needs to understand". -- Ms. [via]
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The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New Worldby Paul RobertsISBN 0618562117 (0-618-56211-7)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World'Book summary:The End of Oil is a "geologic cautionary tale for a complacent world accustomed to reliable infusions of cheap energy." The book centers around one irrefutable fact: the global supply of oil is being depleted at an alarming rate. Precisely how much accessible (not to mention theoretical) oil remains is debatable, but even conservative estimates mark the peak of production in decades rather than centuries. Which energy sources will replace oil, who will control them, and how disruptive to the current world order the transition from one system to the next will be are just a few of the big questions that Paul Roberts attempts to answer in this timely book.
As Roberts makes abundantly clear, the major oil players in the world wield their enormous economic and political power in order to maintain the status quo. Of course, they get plenty of help from the tens of millions of consumers, particularly in the U.S. and Europe, who guzzle oil as if there is an unlimited supply. And this demand shows no sign of abating--nearly half of the world's population lives without the benefits of fossil fuels and they desperately want to be among the haves. In countries such as China and India, where energy systems are already breaking down, Roberts discusses how they are looking to oil to fuel their race for development, in many cases ignoring environmental considerations altogether.
Though there is much to be pessimistic about, Roberts does uncover some positive developments, such as the race for alternative energy sources, notably hydrogen fuel cells, which could help to ease us off of our oil dependence before a full-blown energy crisis occurs. No one book could cover every aspect of what Roberts calls "arguably the most serious crisis ever to face industrial society," but The End of Oil is a remarkably informative and balanced introduction to this pressing subject. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Ends of the Earth : A Journey along the Fault Lines of the 20th Centuryby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0679431489 (0-679-43148-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ends of the Earth : A Journey along the Fault Lines of the 20th Century'Book summary:Robert D. Kaplan, author of the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts, travels from the countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack. The result is an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world whose cultural disasters - like those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Chechnya - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow. [via]
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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchyby Robert KaplanISBN 0679751238 (0-679-75123-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy'Book summary:Author of Balkan Ghosts , Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and visceral, The Ends of the Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium. "Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling."--New York Times Book Review "An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it."--Washington Post Book World [via]
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Free Trade Under Fireby Douglas A. IrwinISBN 0691116342 (0-691-11634-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Trade Under Fire'Book summary:The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle". Why has global trade become so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? In this book, Douglas Irwin sweeps aside the misconceptions that litter the debate over trade and aims to give the reader a clear understanding of the issues involved. Putting the findings of an extensive body of economic research at the disposal of the general public, Irwin examines the positions of the proponents and critics of free trade - and makes plain the stakes involved in their disagreement, particularly for the United States. He explains the economic benefits of trade, not just for corporations but for people and the environment. He illustrates how protectionist policies damage the economy and fail to save jobs. Examining US trade policy, he shows how "fair trade" measures are arbitrary, unfair, and often harmful. He then attempts to demystify the World Trade Organization and set the record straight about its controversial rulings on trade and the environment. Irwin does not hold up free trade as a panacea but demonstrates why it is our best alternative. [via]
From Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Foodby Alessandro BonannoISBN 0700606610 (0-7006-0661-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Changeby J. Timmons Roberts, Amy HiteISBN 0631210970 (0-631-21097-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Roleby Fareed ZakariaISBN 0691010358 (0-691-01035-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role'Book summary:Fareed Zakaria, the managing editor of Foreign Affairs, tries to understand why the United States decided in 1898 that it was time to start acting like a world power. His answer lies in the transference of the government's main power from Congress, which was concerned primarily with the needs of its individual constituencies, to a presidency occupied by dynamic leaders such as Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt, who once declared that "when the interests of the American people demanded that a certain act should be done, and I had the power to do it, I did it unless it was specifically prohibited by law."
The lessons Zakaria learns from the example of America have useful applications to contemporary political science; one might consider, for example, the ways in which a politically unified Germany or a economically powerful Japan differs from the 19th-century America that was politically and economically strong; the presence of both qualities would appear to be required for a nation to flex its muscles on the international scene. Although it never quite completely answers the "why," From Wealth to Power does extremely well on the "how" and the even more important "so?" [via]
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Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Centuryby Peter J. Taylor, R.J. JohnstonISBN 0631193278 (0-631-19327-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century'Book summary:The purpose of this important new textbook is to provide students with a series of challenging and revealing perspectives on the trends, trajectories and ideas of the 1990s. Twenty geographers from all over the world have been especially commissioned to address the questions of how and why the world has changed, is changing, and will continue to change. [via]
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Geopolitics in a Changing Worldby Klaus DoddsISBN 0582279542 (0-582-27954-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Gifts Of Athena: Historical Origins Of The Knowledge Economyby Joel MokyrISBN 0691120137 (0-691-12013-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gifts Of Athena: Historical Origins Of The Knowledge Economy'Book summary:The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large--as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions. Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change.
Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.
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Globalheadby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553562819 (0-553-56281-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Anotherby J. Spindler, Janice E. StockardISBN 0534636489 (0-534-63648-9)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistanceby James H. MittelmanISBN 0691009880 (0-691-00988-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Globalization: The Transformation Of Social Worldsby Stanley D. Eitzen, D. Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca ZinnISBN 0534624332 (0-534-62433-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary Systemby Barry EichengreenISBN 0691002452 (0-691-00245-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System'Book summary:The importance of the International Monetary System is evident in the daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events, such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. This volume tells the story of the international financial system over the past 150 years. It is intended not only for economists, but also for a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international economic and political relations. The book demonstrates that insights into the International Monetary System and effective principles for governing it can result only if is seen as a historical phenomenon extending from the gold standard period to interwar instability, then to Bretton Woods and, finally, to the post-1973 period of fluctuating currencies. Eichengreen analyzes the shift from pegged to floating exchange rates in the 1970s, and ascribes that change to the growing capital mobility that has made pegged rates difficult to maintain. However, he shows that capital mobility was also high prior to World War I, yet this did not prevent the maintenance of fixed exchange rates. What was critical for the successful maintenance of fixed exchange rates during that period was the fact that governments were relatively insulated from democratic politics and, thus, from pressure to trade off exchange rate stability for other goals, such as the reduction of unemployment. Today, pegging exchange rates would require very radical reforms of a sort that governments are understandably reluctant to embrace. The implication seems undeniable: floating rates are here to stay. Barry Eichengreen is the author of "Golder Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1918-1939". [via]
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Good Enough to Eat: How We Shop, What We Eatby Maureen TatlowISBN 0717126978 (0-7171-2697-8)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Troubled Prospects of Multinational Enterprisesby Raymond VernonISBN 0674004248 (0-674-00424-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Placeby Anna Lowenhaupt TsingISBN 0691000514 (0-691-00051-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
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Institutional Change and Globalizationby John L. CampbellISBN 0691089213 (0-691-08921-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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International Trade and Finance: Readingsby Robert E. Baldwin, David J. RichardsonISBN 0673391159 (0-673-39115-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-century Europeby Victoria De GraziaISBN 0674022343 (0-674-02234-3)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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Japan's Global Reach: The Influences, Strategies, and Weaknesses of Japan's Multinational Companiesby Bill EmmottISBN 071264928X (0-7126-4928-X)
Hardcover, Century
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Just Trading: On the Ethics and Economics of International Tradeby Daniel FinnISBN 0687052092 (0-687-05209-2)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Lady and the Monkby Pico IyerISBN 0679738347 (0-679-73834-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyotoby Pico IyerISBN 0679403086 (0-679-40308-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spainby Mauro F. GuillenISBN 0691116334 (0-691-11633-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990'sby John Naisbitt, Patricia AburdeneISBN 0688072240 (0-688-07224-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Lineby William M. AdlerISBN 068483779X (0-684-83779-X)
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The Nation-State in Questionby John A. Hall, G. John Ikenberry, T. V. PaulISBN 0691115095 (0-691-11509-5)
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The Nature of Economiesby Jane JacobsISBN 0679603409 (0-679-60340-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Nature of Economies is written in the form of a Platonic dialogue, a conversation over coffee among five contemporary New Yorkers. The question they discuss is: Does economic life obey the same rules as those governing the systems in nature? For example, can the way fields and forests maximize their intakes and uses of sunlight teach us something about how economies expand wealth and jobs and can do this in environmentally beneficial ways? The underlying question is both simple and profound, and the answers that emerge will shape the way people think about how economies really work.
The New York Times described Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities as "first of all a work of literature." The accessibility of her prose--The New Criterion called it "majestic"--stands as Jacobs's hallmark. She is the rarest of analytic thinkers, both an economic visionary and an artist. Examining complex systems with the wit, style, and clear eye of the masterly essayist, in The Nature of Economies Jacobs once again accomplishes the near impossible: She fundamentally challenges some of the established principles of economics while writing in a style that enthralls the general reader. [via]More editions of The Nature of Economies:
The New Financial Order: Risk In The 21st Centuryby Robert ShillerISBN 0691120110 (0-691-12011-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Richby Frederic S. MishkinISBN 0691121540 (0-691-12154-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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One No, Many Yesesby Paul KingsnorthISBN 068402571X (0-684-02571-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Intl
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Paris to the Moonby Adam GopnikISBN 0679444920 (0-679-44492-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris to the Moon'Book summary:In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his subject. Gopnik falls in unabashed love with what he calls Paris's commonplace civilization--the cafés, the little shops, the ancient carousel in the park, and the small, intricate experiences that happen in such settings. But Paris can also be a difficult city to love, particularly its pompous and abstract official culture with its parallel paper universe. The tension between these two sides of Paris and the country's general brooding over the decline of French dominance in the face of globalization (haute couture, cooking, and sex, as well as the economy, are running deficits) form the subtexts for these finely wrought and witty essays. With his emphasis on the micro in the macro, Gopnik describes trying to get a Thanksgiving turkey delivered during a general strike and his struggle to find an apartment during a government scandal over favoritism in housing allocations. The essays alternate between reports of national and local events and accounts of expatriate family life, with an emphasis on "the trinity of late-century bourgeois obsessions: children and cooking and spectator sports, including the spectator sport of shopping." Gopnik describes some truly delicious moments, from the rites of Parisian haute couture, to the "occupation" of a local brasserie in protest of its purchase by a restaurant tycoon, to the birth of his daughter with the aid of a doctor in black jeans and a black silk shirt, open at the front. Gopnik makes terrific use of his status as an observer on the fringes of fashionable society to draw some deft comparisons between Paris and New York ("It is as if all American appliances dreamed of being cars while all French appliances dreamed of being telephones") and do some incisive philosophizing on the nature of both. This is masterful reportage with a winning infusion of intelligence, intimacy, and charm. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Politics and Society in the Third Worldby Susan Calvert, Peter CalvertISBN 0582437245 (0-582-43724-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Politics in the Developing World: A Concise Introductionby Jeffrey HaynesISBN 0631225560 (0-631-22556-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Politics of Globalization: A Readerby Mark KesselmanISBN 0618395997 (0-618-39599-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Languageby John H. McWhorterISBN 0716744732 (0-7167-4473-2)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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In this irreverent romp through territory too often claimed by stodgy grammarians, McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from a single, original source in a natural process similar to biological evolution. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, he reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment.
Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, creoles, patois and nonstandard dialects. McWhorter also discusses current theories on what the first language might have been like, why dialects should not be considered "bad speech" and why most of today's languages will be extinct in 100 years.
The first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, Power of Babel is a dazzling tour de force that will leave readers anything but speechless.More editions of The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Language:
Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, And The Changing Calculus Of Conflictby Stephen G. BrooksISBN 0691121516 (0-691-12151-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysisby Ove Kaj Pedersen, John CampbellISBN 0691070873 (0-691-07087-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Roaring 2000's : Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in Historyby Dent, Harry S., Jr.ISBN 0684838184 (0-684-83818-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Roaring 2000s: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in Historyby Harry S. DentISBN 0684853108 (0-684-85310-8)
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Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Centuryby James CliffordISBN 0674779614 (0-674-77961-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutionsby Lloyd GruberISBN 0691010412 (0-691-01041-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists: Unleashing The Power Of Financial Markets To Create Wealth And Spread Opportunityby Raghuram Rajan, Luigi ZingalesISBN 0691121281 (0-691-12128-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. They are the catalyst for inspiring human ingenuity and spreading prosperity. The perception of many, especially in the wake of never-ending corporate scandals, is that financial markets are parasitic institutions that feed off the blood, sweat, and tears of the rest of us. The reality is far different.
"Vibrant financial markets threaten the sclerotic corporate establishment and increase corporate mobility and opportunity. They are the reason why entrepreneurship flourishes and companies like The Home Depot and Wal-Martmere fly specks a quarter of a century agohave surged as they have.
"They mean personal freedom and economic development for more people. Throughout history, and in most of the world today, the record is one of financial oppression. Elites restrict access to capital and severely limit not only general economic development but that of individuals as well.
"Open borders help check the political and economic elites and preserve competitive markets. The greatest danger of the antiglobalization movement is that it will keep the rich rich and the poor poor. Globalization forces countries to do what is necessary to make their economies productive, not what is best for incumbent elites. Open borders limit the ability of domestic politics to close down competition and to retard financial and economic growth.
"Markets are especially susceptible in economic downturns when the establishment can exploit public anger to restrict competition and access to capital. While markets must be free to practice creative destruction, Rajan and Zingales demonstrate the political and economic importance of a sustainable distribution of wealth and a baseline safety net. Capitalism needs a heart for its own good!
There are no iron laws of economics that condemn countries like Bangladesh to perpetual poverty or the United States to perpetual prosperity. The early years of the twentieth century saw vibrant, open financial markets that were creating widespread prosperity. Then came the Great Reversal during the Great Depression. It canand willhappen again, unless there is greater understanding of what markets do, who benefits, and who really wants to either limit them or shut them down.
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists breaks free of traditional ideological arguments of the right and left and points to a new way of understanding and spreading the extraordinary wealth-generating capabilities of capitalism. [via]More editions of Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists: Unleashing The Power Of Financial Markets To Create Wealth And Spread Opportunity:
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Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalismby Alfred D. ChandlerISBN 0674789954 (0-674-78995-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalismby Chandler, Alfred D., Jr.ISBN 0674789946 (0-674-78994-6)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essaysby Wendell BerryISBN 0679756515 (0-679-75651-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sharing Our Future: Canadian International Development Assistanceby Canadian International Development AgencyISBN 0662555171 (0-662-55517-1)
Hardcover, Canadian International Development Agency
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Students Shopping for a Better Worldby Alice T. MarlinISBN 0685649830 (0-685-64983-0)
Softcover, Council on Econ Priorities
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0679745408 (0-679-74540-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Terrorism And 9/11: A Readerby Fredrik LogevallISBN 0618255354 (0-618-25535-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Theopolitical Imaginationby William CavanaughISBN 0567088774 (0-567-08877-4)
Softcover, T&t Clark Ltd
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The Transnational Capitalist Classby Leslie SklairISBN 0631224629 (0-631-22462-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globlazationby Michael Peter SmithISBN 0631184244 (0-631-18424-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far Eastby Pico IyerISBN 0679722165 (0-679-72216-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstreamby Tim FalconerISBN 0670894176 (0-670-89417-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group
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A World Transformedby Brent Scowcroft, George BushISBN 0679752595 (0-679-75259-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A World Transformedby George Herbert Walker Bush, Brent ScowcroftISBN 0679432485 (0-679-43248-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Transformed'Book summary:George Bush's term as President occurred during a watershed era for international politics. In fact, so many major events took place on his watch that he limits A World Transformed to the years 1989 to 1991, in which the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the Persian Gulf War held center stage. Though some will claim that this narrow focus only confirms Bush's disproportionate interest in foreign rather than domestic affairs, the events in question certainly warrant a book of their own. Perhaps anticipating such a response, Bush hints in the introduction that further memoirs are in the works.
A World Transformed is divided into three voices: Bush, his coauthor and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and the collective "we" of the National Security Council (supplying vital background information and a wider view of the events discussed). Overall, this formula works--Bush's tone is particularly warm and chatty, his narrative peppered with telling anecdotes that reveal the personalities and emotions behind the bold-faced headlines. His remarks are mostly to the point, gratifyingly lucid, and often compelling. Diary excerpts supply many memorable insights, if few truly shocking revelations. For instance, at the end of the Persian Gulf War, he wrote: "Isn't it a marvelous thing that this little country will be liberated.... The big news, of course, is this high performance of our troops--the wonderful job they've done; the conviction that we're right and the others are wrong. We're doing something decent, and we're doing something good; and Vietnam will soon be behind us.... It's surprising how much I dwell on the end of the Vietnam syndrome."
In describing his interaction with other world leaders, Bush emerges as a skillful negotiator and statesman, fostering a personal, first-name-basis style of diplomacy that proved especially effective with Mikhail Gorbachev and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Scowcroft, the consummate support man and workaholic, focuses more on the nuts and bolts, balancing out their presentation of how crises are dealt with at the highest level. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Zeitgeistby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553576410 (0-553-57641-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Fans will recognize Zeitgeist's antihero protagonist Leggy Starlitz from Sterling stories "Hollywood Kremlin," "Are You for 86?" and "The Littlest Jackal." The well-connected, world-class fixer is part mystic, part sleaze--sort of Uncle Enzo meets Templeton "Faceman" Peck--and his latest hustle is plying the Third World with merchandise from his all-fake, all-girl band, G-7. (Its seven talentless, Wonderbra-wearing members are known simply as the American One, the French One, the German One, etc.)
Starlitz makes use of a shady, flamboyantly weird network of state officials, bodyguards, photographers, and other assorted players to push the merchandise--action figures, lip gloss, shoes, you name it--on what one of G-7's savvier members calls the "Moslem hillbillies." But things get surreal as G-7 girls start dying, characters start explicitly referring to their purpose in the narrative, and one of Leggy's associates conspires to break G-7's most sacred rule: that the whole enterprise must end by Y2K. --Paul Hughes [via]
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