Living in a material world : The commodity connection af Kevin Morrison (Bog)

Om olieproduktionens sociale, økonomiske og miljømæssige konsekvenser verden over Titel: En rå verden : oliens storhed og fald Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Olie korrumperer, ødelægger miljøet, skaber kun få arbejdspladser og vil med sikkerhed på et tidspunkt tørre ud. Det ironiske ved de olierige lande er bl.a., at de fleste af dem faktisk ikke er rige, at deres olie snarere skaber problemer end bringer velstand. Den amerikanske journalist Peter Maass tager i En rå verden læseren med på en tur gennem verdens olierige lande, hvor han i en blanding af malende beskrivelser, hårde facts og levende interviews med landenes nøglepersoner vurderer olieproduktionens sociale, økonomiske og miljømæssige konsekvenser. En rå verden er en stærkt fængslende bog, der sætter ansigter og skæbner på det råstof, der mere end noget andet har udgjort fundamentet for den moderne verden, og samtidig får gjo

Forfatteren peger på tre tendenser, der tilsammen udgør vor tids store globale udfordring: overbefolkning, global opvarmning og en storforbrugende, hastigt voksende middelklasse samt giver bud på at sikre et stabilt klima, blandt andet ved hjælp af vedvarende energi-teknologi Titel: Klimaets tidsalder : hvorfor verden har brug for en grøn revolution Genre: Faglitteratur Sammendrag: Klima- og miljøudfordringer er centrale emner i denne bog, hvor Thomas L. Friedman beskriver den globale pulss optrævler med fokus på energiteknologier og politisk stabilitet. Type: Hardcover

"Lester Brown tells us how to build a more just world and save the planet from climate change in a practical, straightforward way. We should all heed his advice." —President Bill Clinton “A great book which should wake up humankind!” —Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum "An enormous achievement—a comprehensive guide to what's going wrong with earth's life support system and how to fix it." —Grinning Planet “Lester Brown should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his new book.” —Talli Nauman, The Herald Mexico “...exactly what we need to do to get sustainability moving. And it’s a very vital approach to it.” —Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut “... the most compelling blueprint I have seen yet for restoring the planet.” —Tom Weiss, enXco, Inc.

Emerging markets are big news. But after the financial crisis, what does the future really hold for them? And what does this future mean for global business? George Magnus, one of the world's most respected economic analysts, is your guide through the challenges and opportunities for emerging markets and those doing business in them. This magisterial book looks in detail at China and India – the big players – and also less hyped but crucial markets, including Eastern European countries and Turkey. Magnus takes in his sweep everything from commodity prices to climate change, and from comparative advantage to demographic to provide a compelling analysis of what the future might look like – not just for emerging markets, but for investors, businesses and economies everywhere. Uprising is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of the global economy. Titel: Uprising Genre: Faglitte

Asia will redraw the map of economic progress over the next twenty-five years. Growth is necessary to solve economic and social problems but harder to achieve as the age of plenty gives way to the age of scarcities. The challenge opens the doors for an Asian economic model based on shifting of productivity for the individual to groups ecological productivitiy instead of economic productivity and a reversal to traditional Asian values - less materialistic than Western values. A new paradigm for economic thinking emerges to replace the one launched in the West 200 years ago. (Paperback) Forlag: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory to a used clothing market in Africa, to investigate compelling questions about the politics, economics, ethics, and history of modern business and globalization. Forfatter: Pietra Rivoli Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Udgivelsesår: 2006 Sider: 258 Sprog: Engelsk Økonomi handel business bæredygtighed etik historie politik tøj produktion fremstilling

A Crash Course in the Future of Finance One man saw it coming. As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini - aka 'Dr Doom' - warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas resulting in a deep recession. Free market fundamentalism would fail and we'd be faced with the worst economic crisis in history, crippling our global economy and bringing the world's financial systems to a shuddering halt. Sound familiar? By guiding us through a crash course in 'crisis economics' - black swans and white swans, pressure points in the global economy, crises that extend beyond national borders and bubbles in the financial sector that spill over into the real economy - Roubini shows us that boom to bust economics does not have to be destiny. Roubini offers a course for the future: radical reform of the international financial or

From one of our shrewdest economic trend-spotters, a wake-up call that prosperity is about to shift from the West to the East, and what we can do before it’s too late Titel: Three billion new capitalists : the great shift of wealth and power to the East Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: historie_samfund Sammendrag: Clyde Prestowitz beskriver, hvordan globaliseringen og fremvæksten af markedsøkonomier i Asien og tidligere planøkonomier har tilført verdensøkonomien omkring tre milliarder nye kapitalister. Han analyserer, hvordan denne udvikling ændrer magtbalancen mellem USA/Europa og lande som Kina og Indien. Bogen gennemgår de økonomiske, industrielle og politiske drivkræfter bag væksten i Østen, og hvordan outsourcing, handelspolitik og teknologisk udvikling udfordrer USA’s traditionelle økonomiske dominans. Prestowitz argumenterer for, at USA og Vesten må gentænke deres økonomiske strategi og f