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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty by Ali A. Allawi
    Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty - by Ali A. Allawi

    £25.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780300214284 | ISBN 10: 0300214286

    A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment.  Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents by Tony Judt
    Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents - by Tony Judt

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780718191412 | ISBN 10: 0718191412

    "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay"(Oliver Goldsmith)  Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material sel ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry by Paul Roberts
    The End of Food: The Coming Crisis in the World Food Industry - by Paul Roberts

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747596424 | ISBN 10: 0747596425

    How the era of postwar superabundance is coming to and end and what awaits us – by the author of the best-selling The End of Oil.  The emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance – but at a steep and ultimately unsusta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tax Justice: Putting Global Inequality on the Agenda by Matti Kohonen and Francine Mestrum
    Tax Justice: Putting Global Inequality on the Agenda - by Matti Kohonen and Francine Mestrum

    £27.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745328614 | ISBN 10: 074532861x

    Tax justice is a massive issue worldwide. Never before has there been so much wealth, and yet even the world's richest countries seem to lack public finances to fund the most basic needs of their citizens. It is a great paradox of our time.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World
    Aid and Other Dirty Business: How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor - by Giles Bolton

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780091914356 | ISBN 10: 0091914353

    Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your aid money?  Why trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending by James Raymond Vreeland
    The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending - by James Raymond Vreeland

    £21.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415374637 | ISBN 10: 0415374634

    This is the ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies.  Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Surprised by Joy by Michael Meegan
    Surprised by Joy - by Michael Meegan

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905379057 | ISBN 10: 1905379056

    This is a story of tragedy and suffering on an epci scale. From the heart of an ancient continent comes a tale as old as time and a journey that is powerful and beautiful. This is a story of passion and love, disaster and corruption. It is the story ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crude: The Story of Oil. by Sonia Shah
    Crude: The Story of Oil. - by Sonia Shah

    £13.99   hardback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781583226254 | ISBN 10: 1583226257

    'Crude' is the story of the black gold that eclipsed King Coal, decisibely won the Great War, propelled the west from the industrial revolution to the Plastic Age, and ultimately divided the world of nations into three camps: the powerful, the powerl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Whose Trade Organisation by Lori Wallach & Patrick Woodall/Public Citizen
    Whose Trade Organisation - by Lori Wallach & Patrick Woodall/Public Citizen

    £17.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781565848412 | ISBN 10: 1565848411

    Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways-often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening expose documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive a ... more

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