Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

Katherine Boo

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians [...]

The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic

By: David Limbaugh

Limbaugh sets his sights on the remainder of President Obama’s first term, revealing how Obama’s policies have put us on a collision course with financial ruin and international powerlessness.

Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

by Glenn Beck

As we approach the most important presidential election in America’s history, something has been lost among all of the debates, attack ads, and super- PACs—something that Americans used to hold in very high regard: THE TRUTH.

Glenn Beck likes to say that “the truth has no agenda”—but there’s another side to that: people who have agendas rarely care about the truth. And, these days, it seems like everyone has an agenda. The media leads with stories that rate over [...]

The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward

Bruce Bartlett

As a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bartlett was one of the originators of Reaganomics, the supply-side economic theory that conservatives have clung to for decades. In The New American Economy, Bartlett goes back to the economic roots that made Impostor a bestseller and abandons the conservative dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what’s worked in the past. Marshalling compelling history and economics, he explains how economic theories that may be perfectly valid at [...]

New Rules for the New Economy

By :Kevin Kelly

Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world.

Succinct and memorable, [...]

The Next Economy and America’s Future

By:

Robert B. Reich

A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.

When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, [...]

The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh – Harvard University Press (2008) – Paperback – 448 pages – ISBN 0674030710

Producer: Heron & CraneIn this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. From women who clean [...]

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By Abhijit V. Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo – PublicAffairs (2011) – Har

dback – 320 pages – ISBN 1586487981

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year AwardBillions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in [...]

The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job

By 2015, China may well have the world’s largest economy. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bureaucracy. Shenkar shows why China’s quest for global success differs radically from predecessors such as Japan, India, and Mexico… why it represents a fundamental restructuring of the global business system… and why it will transform the roles of participants [...]

The United States of America: Between Hard and Soft Power

Rafik Abdessalem

This book attends to the reality of America’s soft power, and its relevance to the phenomenon of hegemony which was and is still enjoyed by the United States since the end of World War II. It also monitors changes in the general international climate following the rise of neo-conservatives to the White House, and the ensuing impact on the U.S. influence in the international arena.
Title: United States of America between Hard Power and Soft Power
Author: Rafik Abdessalem
Series: Al [...]