International Economics

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt's life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a US storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy.

Shaped by his 25 years traveling the world and enlivened by encounters with tycoons, presidents, and villagers from Rio to Beijing, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the "dismal science" of economics as a practical art. Narrowing the thousands of factors that can shape a country's fortunes to 10 clear rules, Sharma explains how to spot political, economic, and social changes in real time. He shows how to read political headlines, black markets, the price of onions, and billionaire rankings as signals of booms, busts, and protests.

Harvest transports listeners to the beautiful and eerie world of India’s cotton fields. Source of the most intimate and universal of commodities, we find these white-flecked lands pushed to their limit by global pressures.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...

American Eagle, Chinese Dragon: Strategy, Law, and Power in U.S.–China Relations China, the world's largest and richest country, rises. What will the US and Europe do? For example, is Vietnam now a sound investment—or a dangerous gamble? Such questions shape international business, foreign policy, and strategy today. Answers are here. In American Eagle, Chinese Dragon, Dr. Eric Engle, a distinguished scholar of international law and comparative politics, provides a powerful framework for understanding the U.S.–China rivalry. This book is essential reading for legal professionals, ...

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth.

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike. That's why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to confront a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran. "Deftly written, Chokepoints is a compelling and dramatic narrative about the new shape of...

Economics Explained: Markets, Incentives, Growth, Inequality, and Public Policy for Thoughtful Readers is a clear, accessible guide to understanding how modern economies actually work. Designed for curious readers who want economic ideas without jargon or rigid ideology, this book breaks down essential concepts such as scarcity, supply and demand, competition, money, banking, economic growth, inequality, taxation, and global trade in plain language. Whether you are a student, professional, entrepreneur, or engaged citizen, this book provides the tools to think more clearly about everyday ...

CONTENTS: I. GENERAL ASPECTS 1. GOODS TRANSPORTATION HISTORY 2. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE HISTORY 3. LOGISTICS DEFINITIONS II. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK 1. INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK 2. MEXICAN FRAMEWORK 3. CUSTOMS REGIMES 4. REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR CUSTOMS CLEARANCE 5. TARIFFS AND TARIFF CODES III. CARGO 1. TYPES OF CARGO 2. PACKING AND PACKAGE 3. MEASURE OF QUANTITY IV. TRANSPORTATION MODES A. Selection Criteria for Transportation Mode 2. ROAD TRANSPORTATION 3. RAIL TRANSPORTATION 4. WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION 5. AIR TRANSPORTATION 6. MULTIMODAL OR INTERMODAL ...

The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the past hundred years, in 1914, 1939, and 1971. Each collapse was followed by a period of tumult: War, civil unrest, or significant damage to the stability of the global economy. Now James Rickards, the acclaimed author of Currency Wars, shows why another collapse is rapidly approaching - and why this time, nothing less than the institution of money itself is at risk.

Looking underneath the cover of globalization, Wood shatters the false narrative of a promised utopia and exposes the true nature of the deception used to promote this new economic order, in this audiobook. Those elite who hate the bedrock of American liberty and its time-tested constitution have pulled out all the stops to destroy both, and it's time for citizens to stand up to reject them. As always, Wood closes with the nature of effective resistance and the tools that can help to achieve success.

With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that...

Bringing together the most influential scholars in the field, the fifth edition of this best-selling book provides unrivaled coverage of international relations theories and arguments. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Advance copies of Ray Dalio’s new book about how countries go broke have become a hot read in Washington.” —The New York Times “This book is a gift to humanity….Ray provides a solution to what is the biggest and most certain threat to our prosperity.”...

Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan...

Discover the untold story of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the most influential platform shaping global economics, politics, and society over the last five decades. From its humble beginnings as a European management forum to its rise as a global convening space for corporate leaders, political figures, and innovators, this book reveals how Davos became the stage where the world’s most critical decisions are debated and sometimes decided. Dive into the pivotal moments that defined the Forum’s evolution: How the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s tested WEF’s relevance...

Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life. Policymakers depend on macroeconomists' knowledge when making decisions about such issues as taxes and the public budget, monetary and exchange rate policies, and trade policies-all of which, in turn, affect decisions made by individuals and businesses. 

In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China - into an accessible narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished.