This influential work by historian Walter Rodney examines the economic and political mechanisms through which Europe contributed to the underdevelopment of Africa. Rodney argues that European imperialism, slavery, and colonial exploitation systematically impoverished African societies while enriching Europe. Combining historical analysis with economic theory, the book explores precolonial Afric…
A landmark study examining the economic and commercial interactions that shaped the Indian Ocean region from the rise of Islam (7th century) to the mid-18th century. The book explores long-distance maritime trade, commercial networks, economic institutions, cultural exchanges, and the role of ports and trading communities across Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Chaudhuri analyzes how tra…
The Bangladesh Papers is a collection of recorded statements, speeches, and important political declarations by key leaders from 1969–1971, including Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and General A.M. Yahya Khan. Published by Vanguard Books Ltd., this book collects their public speeches and political pronouncements during the critical years leading up to the partition of Pakistan an…
Armed with a thorough knowledge of Asia, Jim Rohwer is a benevolent but sharp witness of the region's fortunes. He gathers hard facts and opinions from impeccable sources and builds around them a very compelling picture of Asia's need to feed on the best standards America can offer. Asia ought to be selective in the process, and Jim Rohwer offers penetrating views on how the countries of the re…
In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce…
The club of Rome was founded in 1968, the year of the great divide which marked the end, as well as the zenith, of the headlong post-war period of economic growth in the industrialized world. At present, the Club comprises one hundred individuals from fifty-three countries. It has no political ambition.
Current perspectives on Latin America’s role in the world tend to focus on one question: Why is Latin America always falling behind? Analysts and scholars offer answers grounded in history, economic underdevelopment, or democratic consolidation. Bagley and Horwitz, however, shift the central question to ask why and to what extent does Latin America matter in world politics, both now and in th…
We stand at the dawn of a new era. Before us is the most important decade in the history of civilization, a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform, and great cultural rebirth. It will be a decade like none that has come before because it will culminate in the millennium, the year 2000.
Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow's society. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shapping a future already very much with us.
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