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Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
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Illicit activities are exploding worldwide. The onslaught of globalization has unleashed a tidal wave of bad stuff--everything from arms trafficking, human smuggling, and money laundering to music bootlegging. Here is the dark side of globalization: the mushrooming underground economy. Moisés Naím explores this murky world in his book Illi... »
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
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The pedigrees of the blurbers of this book give some sense of its mission--economists with impressive positions for the most part in the 'BRIC' (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries. The book is basically an argument for a renewal of Keynesian developmentalism, which to some degree these countries are returning to. Amsden offers a history in three... »
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Children at War
Back in the mid-1990s I spent many months reporting on child soldiers in places including Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. I wr... »
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