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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

od Yuen Yuen Ang • 2016

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

od Yuen Yuen Ang 2016 503 stran

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

Building Social Business

od Muhammad Yunus • 1997

A business that returns your money and not a penny more. It beats charity and it scales.

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 💰 Microfinance 🤝 Poverty Alleviation 🏗️ Social Enterprise 📊 Bottom Of The Pyramid

Building Social Business

A business that returns your money and not a penny more. It beats charity and it scales.

od Muhammad Yunus 1997 255 stran

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 💰 Microfinance 🤝 Poverty Alleviation 🏗️ Social Enterprise 📊 Bottom Of The Pyramid

Cultures and Organizations

od Geert Hofstede • 1993

Six cultural dimensions shape how nations work, lead, and trade; your MBA covered only one.

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🏢 Cross-Cultural Management 📊 Organizational Behavior 🌍 National Culture 🌐 Global Business 🤝 Intercultural Competence

Cultures and Organizations

Six cultural dimensions shape how nations work, lead, and trade; your MBA covered only one.

od Geert Hofstede 1993 575 stran

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🏢 Cross-Cultural Management 📊 Organizational Behavior 🌍 National Culture 🌐 Global Business 🤝 Intercultural Competence

Theories of International Relations

od Andrew Linklater • 1996

Thirteen competing theories of global politics, and why a single lens is never enough.

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🧭 IR Theory ⚔️ Paradigm Debates 🧩 Theoretical Pluralism 🔍 Critical Theory ⚖️ Normative Theory

Theories of International Relations

Thirteen competing theories of global politics, and why a single lens is never enough.

od Andrew Linklater 1996 310 stran

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🧭 IR Theory ⚔️ Paradigm Debates 🧩 Theoretical Pluralism 🔍 Critical Theory ⚖️ Normative Theory

The Age of Sustainable Development

od Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2015

Growth, inclusion, and sustainability are the same project. Sacrifice one, and the others collapse.

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🌱 Sustainable Development 📊 Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌡️ Climate Economics 📜 Environmental Policy

The Age of Sustainable Development

Growth, inclusion, and sustainability are the same project. Sacrifice one, and the others collapse.

od Jeffrey D. Sachs 2015 544 stran

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🌱 Sustainable Development 📊 Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌡️ Climate Economics 📜 Environmental Policy

World on the Brink

od Dmitri Alperovitch • 2024

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

World on the Brink

The playbook to deter China: focus on Taiwan, control chips, and lock in every alliance.

od Dmitri Alperovitch 2024 400 stran

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🇨🇳 Us-China Relations ♟️ Great Power Competition 💵 Economic Statecraft 🛡️ Deterrence Theory 🏝️ Taiwan Strait

Extrastatecraft

od Keller Easterling • 2014

Free zones and broadband cables don't just move goods. They rewrite who governs the world.

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🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 📐 Architectural Theory 🌍 Global Urbanism 🕸️ Network Thinking 🗺️ Spatial Theory

Extrastatecraft

Free zones and broadband cables don't just move goods. They rewrite who governs the world.

od Keller Easterling 2014 252 stran

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🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 📐 Architectural Theory 🌍 Global Urbanism 🕸️ Network Thinking 🗺️ Spatial Theory

Superclass

od David Rothkopf • 2008

About six thousand people actually run the world. They are not who you voted for.

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🌍 Global Elites 🌐 Transnational Power 💰 Wealth Inequality 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Globalization

Superclass

About six thousand people actually run the world. They are not who you voted for.

od David Rothkopf 2008 400 stran

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🌍 Global Elites 🌐 Transnational Power 💰 Wealth Inequality 🕸️ Elite Networks 🏢 Corporate Globalization

New Cold Wars

od David E. Sanger • 2024

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

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🌐 Geopolitics 🤝 International Relations ⚔️ Great Power Competition 💻 Hybrid Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Strategy

New Cold Wars

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

od David E. Sanger 2024 528 stran

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🌐 Geopolitics 🤝 International Relations ⚔️ Great Power Competition 💻 Hybrid Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Strategy

2030

od Mauro F. Guillén • 2020

By 2030, three demographic waves collide: aging societies, female fortunes, and an ascendant Asia.

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🌐 Macroeconomic Trends 🌍 Global Demographics 🔮 Futures Thinking 📊 Convergence Trends 👴 Aging Populations

2030

By 2030, three demographic waves collide: aging societies, female fortunes, and an ascendant Asia.

od Mauro F. Guillén 2020 282 stran

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🌐 Macroeconomic Trends 🌍 Global Demographics 🔮 Futures Thinking 📊 Convergence Trends 👴 Aging Populations

The End of Alchemy

od Mervyn A. King • 2016

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

The End of Alchemy

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

od Mervyn A. King 2016 464 stran

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

The Future of Work

od Darrell M. West • 2018

Automation threatens half of all jobs. Our safety nets were designed for a different economy.

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🏭 Workforce Automation 📉 Job Displacement 🚗 Gig Economy 🪪 Social Safety Net ⚖️ Technology Policy

The Future of Work

Automation threatens half of all jobs. Our safety nets were designed for a different economy.

od Darrell M. West 2018 209 stran

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🏭 Workforce Automation 📉 Job Displacement 🚗 Gig Economy 🪪 Social Safety Net ⚖️ Technology Policy

Bottle of Lies

od Katherine Eban • 2019

Your generic pills might be fake. A whistleblower inside the world's largest drug factory proved it.

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 💰 Corporate Fraud 📣 Whistleblowers 🔎 Investigative Journalism 🌐 Global Health

Bottle of Lies

Your generic pills might be fake. A whistleblower inside the world's largest drug factory proved it.

od Katherine Eban 2019 512 stran

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 💰 Corporate Fraud 📣 Whistleblowers 🔎 Investigative Journalism 🌐 Global Health

Consequences of Capitalism

od Noam Chomsky • 2020

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📺 Media Criticism ✊ Anti-Capitalism 🏦 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Democratic Decline

Consequences of Capitalism

The system that breeds inequality also engineers the discontent that threatens to bring it down.

od Noam Chomsky 2020 418 stran

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🏛️ Political Economy 📺 Media Criticism ✊ Anti-Capitalism 🏦 Neoliberalism 🗳️ Democratic Decline

Opus

od Gareth Gore • 2024

Shell companies and coerced women built an empire. The blueprint belonged to a Catholic order.

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🏛️ Catholic Power Structures 🕵️ Secret Societies 📰 Investigative Journalism 🧠 Psychological Control 👁️ Cult Dynamics

Opus

Shell companies and coerced women built an empire. The blueprint belonged to a Catholic order.

od Gareth Gore 2024 546 stran

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🏛️ Catholic Power Structures 🕵️ Secret Societies 📰 Investigative Journalism 🧠 Psychological Control 👁️ Cult Dynamics

Conquests and Cultures

od Thomas Sowell • 1998

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

Conquests and Cultures

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

od Thomas Sowell 1998 512 stran

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

od Tim Harford • 2017

Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.

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📜 Economic History 💡 Innovation Economics 🔧 Technological History 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🌪️ Creative Destruction

Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Fifty inventions, from barbed wire to infant formula, and the economic ripples nobody saw coming.

od Tim Harford 2017 336 stran

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📜 Economic History 💡 Innovation Economics 🔧 Technological History 🦋 Unintended Consequences 🌪️ Creative Destruction

The End of the World As We Know It

od Immanuel Wallerstein • 1999

The modern world-system emerged in the 1500s. It will not survive this century.

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🌐 World-Systems Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 💰 Global Political Economy 📖 Postcolonial Critique 📉 Capitalist Crisis

The End of the World As We Know It

The modern world-system emerged in the 1500s. It will not survive this century.

od Immanuel Wallerstein 1999 288 stran

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🌐 World-Systems Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 💰 Global Political Economy 📖 Postcolonial Critique 📉 Capitalist Crisis

Chokepoints

od Edward Fishman • 2025

America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.

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⚔️ Economic Warfare 🌐 International Finance 💵 Dollar Dominance 💻 Tech Decoupling ⛽ Energy Politics

Chokepoints

America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.

od Edward Fishman 2025 560 stran

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⚔️ Economic Warfare 🌐 International Finance 💵 Dollar Dominance 💻 Tech Decoupling ⛽ Energy Politics

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

od Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

od Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 stran

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

The Key Man

od Simon Clark • 2021

Davos loved him. Bill Gates trusted him. He promised profit from poverty, then stole a billion.

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🏢 Private Equity 🌍 Emerging Markets 💸 Financial Fraud 🌱 Impact Investing 🤝 Elite Networks

The Key Man

Davos loved him. Bill Gates trusted him. He promised profit from poverty, then stole a billion.

od Simon Clark 2021 352 stran

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🏢 Private Equity 🌍 Emerging Markets 💸 Financial Fraud 🌱 Impact Investing 🤝 Elite Networks

The Song Machine

od John Seabrook • 2015

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

The Song Machine

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

od John Seabrook 2015 336 stran

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

India Unbound

od Gurcharan Das • 2000

Forty years of socialism, 3% growth: India's stagnation was self-inflicted. Then 1991 broke it open.

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🏛️ Indian Economy 📈 Development Economics 📋 License Raj 🔓 Market Liberalization 🌏 Emerging Markets

India Unbound

Forty years of socialism, 3% growth: India's stagnation was self-inflicted. Then 1991 broke it open.

od Gurcharan Das 2000 548 stran

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🏛️ Indian Economy 📈 Development Economics 📋 License Raj 🔓 Market Liberalization 🌏 Emerging Markets

City of Gold

od Jim Krane • 2009

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

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🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

City of Gold

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

od Jim Krane 2009 368 stran

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🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

The White Man's Burden

od William Easterly • 2006

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

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📈 Development Economics 🔍 Aid Skepticism 🌱 Bottom-Up Development 🔗 Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The White Man's Burden

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

od William Easterly 2006 443 stran

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📈 Development Economics 🔍 Aid Skepticism 🌱 Bottom-Up Development 🔗 Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Radical Markets

od Eric A. Posner • 2018

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Radical Markets

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

od Eric A. Posner 2018 368 stran

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Digital Empires

od Anu Bradford • 2023

Three powers are battling to govern the internet, and the prize is the future of democracy.

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🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Regulatory Competition 🇨🇳 Techno-Nationalism 🔒 Data Privacy 🏛️ Political Economy

Digital Empires

Three powers are battling to govern the internet, and the prize is the future of democracy.

od Anu Bradford 2023 608 stran

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🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Regulatory Competition 🇨🇳 Techno-Nationalism 🔒 Data Privacy 🏛️ Political Economy

Capitalism, Alone

od Branko Milanović • 2019

Capitalism has no rivals left, only two forms. Each carries a contradiction that could unravel it.

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🏭 Global Capitalism 🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Inequality Economics 🏗️ State-Led Development 🇨🇳 China's Rise

Capitalism, Alone

Capitalism has no rivals left, only two forms. Each carries a contradiction that could unravel it.

od Branko Milanović 2019 304 stran

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🏭 Global Capitalism 🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Inequality Economics 🏗️ State-Led Development 🇨🇳 China's Rise

Future Crimes

od Marc Goodman • 2015

Crime went corporate. The dark web runs like Amazon, and your digital exhaust is its inventory.

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🛡️ Cybersecurity 🕶️ Dark Web 💻 Digital Crime 🔍 Data Privacy 📡 Digital Surveillance

Future Crimes

Crime went corporate. The dark web runs like Amazon, and your digital exhaust is its inventory.

od Marc Goodman 2015 393 stran

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🛡️ Cybersecurity 🕶️ Dark Web 💻 Digital Crime 🔍 Data Privacy 📡 Digital Surveillance

The Diversity Illusion

od Ed West • 2012

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

The Diversity Illusion

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

od Ed West 2012 288 stran

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

River Kings

od Cat Jarman • 2021

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

River Kings

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

od Cat Jarman 2021 336 stran

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

China's Great Wall of Debt

od Dinny McMahon • 2018

Ghost cities, $12 trillion in debt, and shadow banks hiding the risk. China's miracle was borrowed.

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🏮 Chinese Economy 🏦 Shadow Banking 🏛️ State Capitalism 💸 Emerging Market Debt 📊 Debt And Leverage

China's Great Wall of Debt

Ghost cities, $12 trillion in debt, and shadow banks hiding the risk. China's miracle was borrowed.

od Dinny McMahon 2018 288 stran

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🏮 Chinese Economy 🏦 Shadow Banking 🏛️ State Capitalism 💸 Emerging Market Debt 📊 Debt And Leverage

Crashed

od Adam Tooze • 2018

The 2008 crash was a transatlantic bank run, and what it really broke was politics, not markets.

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💥 Financial Crises 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Political Economy ✂️ Austerity Politics 🌍 Geopolitics

Crashed

The 2008 crash was a transatlantic bank run, and what it really broke was politics, not markets.

od Adam Tooze 2018 720 stran

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💥 Financial Crises 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Political Economy ✂️ Austerity Politics 🌍 Geopolitics

Poor Economics

od Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2011

Grand theories say invest in institutions. The data says deworm children and give away bed nets.

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎲 Randomized Trials 📋 Evidence-Based Policy

Poor Economics

Grand theories say invest in institutions. The data says deworm children and give away bed nets.

od Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 303 stran

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎲 Randomized Trials 📋 Evidence-Based Policy

One World

od Peter Singer • 2002

Borders do not contain carbon, missiles, or pandemics. They should not contain your conscience.

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🌍 Global Ethics 🏛️ Cosmopolitanism 💡 Effective Altruism 🧮 Utilitarianism 🌡️ Climate Ethics

One World

Borders do not contain carbon, missiles, or pandemics. They should not contain your conscience.

od Peter Singer 2002 272 stran

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🌍 Global Ethics 🏛️ Cosmopolitanism 💡 Effective Altruism 🧮 Utilitarianism 🌡️ Climate Ethics

The Moment of Lift

od Melinda French Gates • 2019

Empowering women does more to end poverty and disease than any technology.

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🌍 Global Development 📈 Feminist Economics 👶 Family Planning 🎓 Girls' Education 🏠 Unpaid Care Work

The Moment of Lift

Empowering women does more to end poverty and disease than any technology.

od Melinda French Gates 2019 273 stran

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🌍 Global Development 📈 Feminist Economics 👶 Family Planning 🎓 Girls' Education 🏠 Unpaid Care Work

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

od Fareed Zakaria • 2020

COVID-19 hit fast-forward. Ten lessons for a digital, unequal, and bipolar world.

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🏛️ Public Policy 🌐 International Relations 🚨 Crisis Management 💻 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

COVID-19 hit fast-forward. Ten lessons for a digital, unequal, and bipolar world.

od Fareed Zakaria 2020 319 stran

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🏛️ Public Policy 🌐 International Relations 🚨 Crisis Management 💻 Digital Transformation ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Apple in China

od Patrick McGee • 2025

One island, one party: Apple's greatest vulnerability hides in plain sight.

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🚚 Supply Chain Risk 🏭 China Manufacturing 🏛️ State Capitalism 🚀 Tech Nationalism 🇨🇳 China Business

Apple in China

One island, one party: Apple's greatest vulnerability hides in plain sight.

od Patrick McGee 2025 448 stran

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🚚 Supply Chain Risk 🏭 China Manufacturing 🏛️ State Capitalism 🚀 Tech Nationalism 🇨🇳 China Business

The FINTECH Book

od Susanne Chishti • 2016

FinTech isn't just disrupting banking. It's rewriting who participates in the global economy.

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📱 Fintech 🏦 Banking Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🌍 Financial Inclusion 🌏 Emerging Markets

The FINTECH Book

FinTech isn't just disrupting banking. It's rewriting who participates in the global economy.

od Susanne Chishti 2016 320 stran

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📱 Fintech 🏦 Banking Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🌍 Financial Inclusion 🌏 Emerging Markets

Alibaba's World

od Porter Erisman • 2015

How an English teacher and seventeen friends outsmarted eBay in China.

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🏢 Chinese Tech Companies 🛒 Marketplace Platforms 🚀 Founders And Startups 🌏 Emerging Markets 🥊 Startup Underdogs

Alibaba's World

How an English teacher and seventeen friends outsmarted eBay in China.

od Porter Erisman 2015 242 stran

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🏢 Chinese Tech Companies 🛒 Marketplace Platforms 🚀 Founders And Startups 🌏 Emerging Markets 🥊 Startup Underdogs

The Looting Machine

od Tom Burgis • 2015

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

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⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries 🏛️ Crony Capitalism 💸 Illicit Finance

The Looting Machine

Your phone links you to a hidden network that turns Africa's oil and minerals into poverty.

od Tom Burgis 2015 352 stran

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⛓️ Resource Curse 🌍 African Politics ⛏️ Extractive Industries 🏛️ Crony Capitalism 💸 Illicit Finance

The J Curve

od Ian Bremmer • 2006

The path from oppression to openness runs through a valley where nations break.

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🤝 International Relations 🗺️ Geopolitics 🚫 Authoritarian States 🗳️ Democratic Transitions

The J Curve

The path from oppression to openness runs through a valley where nations break.

od Ian Bremmer 2006 320 stran

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🤝 International Relations 🗺️ Geopolitics 🚫 Authoritarian States 🗳️ Democratic Transitions

Breakout Nations

od Ruchir Sharma • 2012

The BRICS boom is fading. Smart money is looking at nations the world has been ignoring.

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🏙️ Emerging Markets 📈 Development Economics 🌐 Global Macro 🛢️ Commodity Cycles 🏛️ Crony Capitalism

Breakout Nations

The BRICS boom is fading. Smart money is looking at nations the world has been ignoring.

od Ruchir Sharma 2012 304 stran

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🏙️ Emerging Markets 📈 Development Economics 🌐 Global Macro 🛢️ Commodity Cycles 🏛️ Crony Capitalism

The Decline and Rise of Democracy

od David Stasavage • 2020

Democracy did not begin in Athens. It emerges where the state is too weak to rule alone.

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🧭 Comparative Politics 📜 Political History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Global History 📋 Bureaucracy And Autocracy

The Decline and Rise of Democracy

Democracy did not begin in Athens. It emerges where the state is too weak to rule alone.

od David Stasavage 2020 424 stran

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🧭 Comparative Politics 📜 Political History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Global History 📋 Bureaucracy And Autocracy

World History 101

od Tom Head • 2017

From Sumer to NATO, the dozen turning points that made the modern world.

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🌍 World History 🏛️ Ancient Civilizations 👑 Empires Rise And Fall ⚔️ Military History ✝️ Religious History

World History 101

From Sumer to NATO, the dozen turning points that made the modern world.

od Tom Head 2017 256 stran

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🌍 World History 🏛️ Ancient Civilizations 👑 Empires Rise And Fall ⚔️ Military History ✝️ Religious History

The Little Bitcoin Book

od Bitcoin Collective • 2019

Money that can't be printed, frozen, or surveilled: why Bitcoin matters beyond the price.

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💸 Digital Currency 🏦 Monetary Policy 🔗 Cryptocurrency Basics 🔑 Financial Sovereignty 🌐 Decentralization

The Little Bitcoin Book

Money that can't be printed, frozen, or surveilled: why Bitcoin matters beyond the price.

od Bitcoin Collective 2019 116 stran

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💸 Digital Currency 🏦 Monetary Policy 🔗 Cryptocurrency Basics 🔑 Financial Sovereignty 🌐 Decentralization

The Only Game in Town

od Mohamed El-Erian • 2016

Central banks saved the economy, then overreached. The road ahead now forks toward opposing futures.

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 Global Economy 📉 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Risk Management ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Only Game in Town

Central banks saved the economy, then overreached. The road ahead now forks toward opposing futures.

od Mohamed El-Erian 2016 320 stran

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 Global Economy 📉 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Risk Management ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992

od Charles Tilly • 1990

The state that best combined armies and taxation won Europe. That formula is now failing.

4.09

500+

🏛️ State Formation 📊 Historical Sociology ⚔️ War And The State 💰 Fiscal Sociology 🎖️ Military Revolution

Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992

The state that best combined armies and taxation won Europe. That formula is now failing.

od Charles Tilly 1990 288 stran

4.09

500+ hodnocení

🏛️ State Formation 📊 Historical Sociology ⚔️ War And The State 💰 Fiscal Sociology 🎖️ Military Revolution

The New Human Rights Movement

od Peter Joseph • 2017

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

4.33

500+

🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

The New Human Rights Movement

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

od Peter Joseph 2017 266 stran

4.33

500+ hodnocení

🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

The Big Truck that Went By

od Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

4.12

1 000+

🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

od Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 stran

4.12

1 000+ hodnocení

🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

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