The New Imperialism

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins · 301 pages

Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries.

Empire

Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri · 487 pages

"Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, Today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitu

Civilization: The West and the Rest

Niall Ferguson · 402 pages

What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six thing

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

Dambisa Moyo · 188 pages

In "Dead Aid," Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa that has channeled billions of dollars in aid but failed to reduce poverty and increase growth. He offers a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein · 109 pages

The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho

James Ferguson · 328 pages

Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the poli

Globalization and Its Discontents

Joseph E. Stiglitz · 528 pages

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Ha-Joon Chang · 288 pages

A radical look by a leading economist at the issues surrounding globalization...It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

Tim Schwab · 496 pages

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari · 456 pages

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What hap

Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them

Robert B. Reich · 151 pages

Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.

The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

Thomas Sowell · 305 pages

This critique of failed social policies of the past 30 years sees what has happened not as isolated mistakes, but as the consequence of the tainted vision of the "anointed", leading to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies.

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg · 64 pages

Summary:A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution. Reform or

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Kevin D. Williamson · 304 pages

Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt · 256 pages

In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren · 352 pages

"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Martin Jacques · 699 pages

Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams · 256 pages

Cuentos Chinos: El engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América Latina

Andres Oppenheimer · 352 pages

Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry

Dylan Ratigan · 245 pages

To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong--but join together to make it right.

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum · 400 pages

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges -- globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its patt

Broke : The Plan to Restore our Trust, Truth and Treasure

Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe

The Constitution of Liberty

Friedrich A. Hayek · 569 pages

"In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle of political ideologies"--P. [4] of cover.

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Arianna Huffington · 276 pages