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The Economics of Innocent Fraud Part 1

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 …

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A Green History of the World Part 7

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 …

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Resource Wars Part 2

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 …

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Resource Wars Part 1

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 …

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The Man Who Planted Trees Part 1

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 …

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The Creation of World Poverty Part 6

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 …

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