THE ECONOMICS OF INNOCENT FRAUD J.K. GALBRAITH PENGUIN BOOKS 2004/2005 PART I Back cover A lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power and the most widely read economist of the 20th century, the legendary Harvard professor J.K. Galbraith has been published by Penguin for more than 40 years. His latest book, The Economics of Innocent …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART III Chapter 2: Oil, Geography, and War: The Competitive Pursuit of Petroleum Plenty Chapter 3: Oil Conflict in the Persian Gulf Chapter 4: Energy Conflict in the Caspian Sea Basin Chapter 5: Oil Wars in the South China …
A NEW GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE COLLAPSE OF GREAT CIVILISATIONS CLIVE PONTING VINTAGE BOOKS 2007 PART VII Chapter 9: The Foundations of Inequality The rise of western Europe after 1500, from being a backward area of the world to one which dominated the rest of the globe, not only …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART II . Chapter 1: Wealth, Resources, and Power: The Changing Parameters of Global Security (Cont) Parallel developments elsewhere · The United States is not the only nation to have assigned greater significance to economic and resource concerns in the …
RESOURCE WARS THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT MICHAEL T. KLARE A METROPOLITAN/OWL BOOK 2001 PART I Introduction Conflict over valuable resources – and the power and wealth they confer – has become an increasingly prominent feature of the global landscape. Often intermixed with ethnic, religious, and tribal antagonisms, such conflict has posed a …
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES JEAN GIONO WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY MICHAEL McCURDY CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1985 PART I For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding …
Book Review Introduction In Part 1 of A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, Clive Ponting tells us that since the fall of the Soviet Union “billions of tons of carbon dioxide have been put into the atmosphere and the threat of global warming is even more …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART V PART 2: THE TRAPS Chapter 5: Bad Governance in a Small Country Governance and economic policies help to shape economic performance, but there is an asymmetry in the consequences of getting …
THE STORY OF MAN AN INTRODUCTION TO 150,000 YEARS CARROLL & GRAF 2007 PART VI Chapter 11: The Making of China The sense of superiority displayed by the Greeks and Romans had its mirror image in China, where people looked out at the world and saw only barbarians. The Silk Road became a conduit, …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VI Chapter 6: Plunder and Loot Adam Smith, the classic proponent of the arguments for free trade and an authority resorted to by many latter-day apologists for Empire, wrote in The Wealth of Nations of the …
