In the Asian Crisis of 1997, the IMF and Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin demonstrate monumental incompetence and misunderstanding of the world financial system.

Before the era of the almighty dollar, the world ran on a "gold standard". This history of gold is useful in any investment library.

In 1900, London was the world financial center. The fall of the British Empire is relevant to Americans today. The information in this excellent history is useful for Capital Flow Analysis.

Much of America's prosperity is financed by the trade deficit. This books goes into how long this can continue.

The world cannot afford to ignore the lessons of Asian and Latin American financial crises - and Japan's malaise - as an even greater economic threat looms.

The mechanisms pushing the Third World into poverty are also deferring U.S. retirement plans and pushing America's children into debt.

With the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and the formation of the euro in Europe, many countries and debating whether or not a common currency is in their best interest.

The complexities of globalization in plain language.

Pointing out the anti-democratic aspects of globalization, Monbiot offers utopian solutions.

Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, this book is the defining document of the antiglobalization movement.

One might hardly care what this ego-maniacal speculator thinks, except that he is willing to spend millions of dollars to support the Democrat Party and may someday influence American foreign and economic policy.

Former Chief Economist for McKinsey & Co. analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family, corrupt lending in South America, and the financing of Al Qaeda. The dark side of globalization.

A Handbook for Activists.

A full study of WTO and GATT.

What people have been shouting about in Seattle and beyond.

Forward by Nobel Laureate, James Tobin

A study of financial crises in Pacific-Asia, Latin American, and Eastern Europe during the 1990s.

Downsizing impacts mainly the less-educated, without improving productivity

An effective debunking of post-industrial theories.

Examples of globalization's positive effects on global labor and environmental standards and its role as a lubricant for democracy.

Isaiah Bowman, the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century, was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy and a key "architect of the United Nations."

Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek makes a powerful case that government involvement in providing a medium of exchange (money) is neither necessary nor beneficial. In fact, government provision of currency is a threat to both liberty and financial stability.

An explicitly global approach to world regional geography that examines the interconnections between people and places at different scales.

Hayek make what was perhaps his most controversial proposal: that governments should be denied a monopoly on the coining of money.

The historical events that have led to America's Middle Eastern Achilles' heel and a blueprint for necessary military and political actions.

Nobel Laureate Stiglitz's stinging attack on the IMF and the World Bank.

A Frenchman seeks to explain the root cause of the world's and particularly Europe's obsession with hating America.

A detailed analysis of the banking community of London when the City was the undisputed financial center of the world.

Africa is home to 80 percent of the 40 million people in the world currently infected with HIV.

The fall from grace of the greatest power on earth since ancient Rome is recounted with parallel and politically correct references to the analog of ancient Rome.

One of the most popular textbooks on this subject in universities across the country.

Offshore outsourcing as a corporate strategy will impact on flow of funds accounts.

A leading economist and former adviser to the U.N. on globalization defends the process.

Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner and Columbia University economics professor, sees globalization's unrealized potential to eradicate poverty and promote economic growth.

Yale Law Professor Chua shows how globalization has created a volatile concoction of free markets and democracy that has incited economic devastation, ethnic hatred and genocidal violence throughout the developing world.

A systematic rebuttal to the claims of the anti-globalization movement, with facts, statistics, and graphs.

An economist points to the benefits-and risks-of international economic integration, and criticizes mainstream economists for downplaying its dangers.

A collection of liberal commentary against free trade and globalization.

Professor Peet provides intellectual heft to the placards of anti-globalization protestors.

An economist's realistic view of mismanagement by the World Bank and the IMF.

How currency options and other derivatives threaten the international monetary system.

Standard source of data on international finance and capital flows from the International Monetary Fund

The consequences for local communities of the internationalization of American business.

A study in the pain of deindustrialization

Factors in wage inequality, job insecurity, and the application of Taylorism to the service economy.

There has been a fundamental redrawing of the global economic map. Dicken identifies states and transnational corporations as the two key actors in the multiple processes of restructuring and institutionalization of the global economy.

An economist presents the arguments in favor of free trade.

A well-researched and politically savvy treatise that goes beyond criticism to propose thoughtful economic alternatives that may enable expanded free trade without imposing more burdens on American labor

A disturbing picture that contradicts commonly held assumptions about the WTO.

Argues that deficit growth is primarily due to unfair foreign trade practices, overzealous antitrust laws, slack U.S. management, and other microeconomic factors.

The hegemony of the dollar is undeniable. Who profits by it, and who is harmed by it?

Graham maintains that stabilization of commodities offers a comparatively simple technique by which the world could achieve the fourfold objective of foreign-exchange stability, reasonable price stability, protective stockpiles, and - most importantly - a balanced expansion of the worlds output and consumption of useful goods.

Works of Benjamin Graham

Global Garbage: Exporting Trash and Toxic Waste (An Impact Book)

A former National Security Council staffer, explains with chilling lucidity why it is becoming more likely that those threats will materialize into a major terrorist incident featuring a weapon of mass destruction.

An expose of the scandalous record of the World Bank and IMF.

A wonderful book. The only complete set of Kipling verse in paperback.

Analysis the nature of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, limited security interests vs. strong humanitarian interests in Bosnia, and misperceptions by leaders and citizens in the U.S. and Europe.

A sweeping survey of England's imperial experience from 1600 to the present, with attention given to the greed and arrogance of the Empire and its achievements.

The post-colonial civil wars that have devastated much of sub-Saharan Africa - catastrophes marked by genocide, famine, disease, economic collapse, and steadily declining life expectancy.

Essays examining the issues surrounding the rise of China as a world political and military power.

The significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community.