This ebook aims to provide a deeper understanding of global trade and investment flows and how they affect the competitiveness of economies. There have been some tectonic shifts in global flows both in terms of actual goods and services and also in terms of financial capital. The emerging...

The last two years have seen a huge amount of interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. This in-depth and empirically diverse volume takes a step back from the hype to explore a number of key questions: does the...

David Mulford has witnessed and participated in dramatic changes in the world economic system-from newly independent countries in Africa and the emerging Eurobond market to the boardrooms of New York, from the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency to the White House and Treasury Department, and from the...

Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart, Dell, and Toyota have enjoyed strong...

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Exploring -- 1 Putting on Financial Goggles -- 2 Getting Technical -- Part 2: Jamming -- 3 Financial Culture-Hacking -- 4 Economic Circuitbending -- Part 3: Building -- 5 Building...

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness -- Part I: Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World's Choke Points -- 1. Labor and Social Movements' Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain...

Intro -- Foreword by Terry Smith -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I. The End of an Era -- Chapter 1. An Economy That Has Run Out of Road -- Chapter 2. How the Economy Really Works -- Part II. The Real Economy -- Chapter 3. The Energy Economy -- Chapter 4. The Great...

The approach of transnational social spaces Ludger Pries -- Comparing local-level Swedish and Mexican transnational life Robert C. Smith -- Disaggregating transnational social spaces : gender, place and citizenship in Mexico-US transnational spaces Luin Goldring -- Transnational families :...

Challenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events...