1. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization Thomas L. Friedman |  Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 310 | From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National
Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the
international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world
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4. Mr. China: A Memoir Tim Clissold |  Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 690 | The idea of China has always exerted a pull on the adventurous type.
There is a kind of entrepreneurial Westerner who just can't resist it: red
flags, a billion bicycles, and the largest untapped market on earth. What
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5. In Defense of Globalization Jagdish Bhagwati |  Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 771 | The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999
was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now
raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child
labor... more
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7. Globalization and Its Discontents Joseph E. Stiglitz |  Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 1102 | This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed
doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel
Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national
bestseller... more
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8. Why Globalization Works Martin Wolf |  Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 1119 | The author, a Financial Times editor, makes a conventional
economist's argument for globalization that is not likely to convince many
skeptics. His faith is that growth and everything else good comes from "the
market," while... more
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10. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins |  Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 1789 | In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge
companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more
efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs.
Paul Hawken... more
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