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Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Trade Paperback, 544 pages | Crown Business | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $17.00 | 978-0-307-71922-5 (0-307-71922-7)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

   - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?
   - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?
   - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More
philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Cool War by Noah Feldman

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

Cool War The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Read by Noah Feldman

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Political Science - International Relations - Diplomacy; Business & Economics - International; Law - International | $17.50 | 978-0-385-36215-3 (0-385-36215-3)

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world

The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era of renewed global struggle: the era of Cool War. Just as the Cold War matched the planet’s reigning superpowers in a contest for geopolitical supremacy, so this new age will pit the United States against a rising China in a contest for dominance, alliances, and resources. Already visible in Asia, the conflict will extend to the Middle East (U.S.-backed Israel versus Chinese-backed Iran), Africa, and beyond.

Yet this Cool War differs fundamentally from the zero-sum showdowns of the past: The world’s major power and its leading challenger are economically interdependent to an unprecedented degree. Exports to the U.S. account for nearly a quarter of Chinese trade, while the Chinese government holds 8 percent of America’s outstanding debt. This positive-sum interdependence has profound implications for nations, corporations, and international institutions. It makes what looked to be a classic contest between two great powers into something much more complex, contradictory, and badly in need of the shrewd and carefully reasoned analysis that Feldman provides.

To understand the looming competition with China, we must understand the incentives that drive Chinese policy. Feldman offers an arresting take on that country’s secretive hierarchy, proposing that the hereditary “princelings” who reap the benefits of the complicated Chinese political system are actually in partnership with the meritocrats who keep the system full of fresh talent and the reformers who are trying to root out corruption and foster government accountability. He provides a clear-eyed analysis of the years ahead, showing how China’s rise presents opportunities as well as risks. Robust competition could make the U.S. leaner, smarter, and more pragmatic, and could drive China to greater respect for human rights. Alternatively, disputes over trade, territory, or human rights could jeopardize the global economic equilibrium—or provoke a catastrophic “hot war” that neither country wants.

The U.S. and China may be divided by political culture and belief, but they are also bound together by mutual self-interest. Cool War makes the case for competitive cooperation as the only way forward that can preserve the peace and make winners out of both sides.

Advance praise for Cool War

“We are leaving the era of ‘Chimerica’—when China and America were economically joined at the hip—and entering the era of what Noah Feldman has justly and wittily dubbed ‘Cool War.’ Feldman anatomizes the rapid transformation of the Sino-American relationship from an unequal trading partnership into a new and heavily armed ambivalence. Just how cool the conflict stays, Feldman suggests, will be determined not in cyberspace or at sea but in international institutions. Cool War is essential reading for any serious student of the emergent bipolar order in the Asia-Pacific region.”—Niall Ferguson, New York Times bestselling author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire and Civilization: The West and the Rest

“By giving realism and liberal internationalism their due, and by giving credence to both naked self-interest and legal norms, Noah Feldman's dissection of the United States–China relationship is smart, balanced, and wise.”—Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography

Story of My People by Edoardo Nesi

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi

Hardcover, 176 pages | Other Press | History - Modern - 21St Century; Business & Economics - International | $19.95 | 978-1-59051-554-9 (1-59051-554-4)

Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.

Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on craftsmanship and quality. But during the last decade, cheaply made goods—produced overseas or in Italy by poorly paid immigrants—saturated the market, making it impossible for Italian companies to keep up. In 2004 his family was forced to sell the textile factory. How this could have happened? Nesi asks, and what are the wider repercussions of losing businesses like his family’s, especially for Italian culture?

Story of My People is a denouncement of big business, corrupt politicians, the arrogance of economists, and cheap manufacturing. It’s a must-read for anyone seeking insight into the financial crisis that’s striking Europe today.

Story of My People by Edoardo Nesi

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi

eBook | Other Press | History - Modern - 21St Century; Business & Economics - International | $11.99 | 978-1-59051-555-6 (1-59051-555-2)

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

Hardcover, 352 pages | Knopf | Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International | $26.95 | 978-0-307-95980-5 (0-307-95980-5)

One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.

Since the collapse of September 2008, the conversation about economic recovery has centered on the question of debt: whether we have too much of it, whose debt to forgive, and how to cut the deficit. These questions dominated the sound bites of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the fiscal-cliff debates, and the perverse policies of the European Union.

Robert Kuttner makes the most powerful argument to date that these are the wrong questions and that austerity is the wrong answer. Blending economics with historical contrasts of effective debt relief and punitive debt enforcement, he makes clear that universal belt-tightening, as a prescription for recession, defies economic logic. And while the public debt gets most of the attention, it is private debts that crashed the economy and are sandbagging the recovery—mortgages, student loans, consumer borrowing to make up for lagging wages, speculative shortfalls incurred by banks. As Kuttner observes, corporations get to use bankruptcy to walk away from debts. Homeowners and small nations don’t. Thus, we need more public borrowing and investment to revive a depressed economy, and more forgiveness and reform of the overhang of past debts.

In making his case, Kuttner uncovers the double standards in the politics of debt, from Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe’s campaign for debt forgiveness in the seventeenth century to the two world wars and Bretton Woods. Just as debtors’ prisons once prevented individuals from surmounting their debts and resuming productive life, austerity measures shackle, rather than restore, economic growth—as the weight of past debt crushes the economy’s future potential. Above all, Kuttner shows how austerity serves only the interest of creditors—the very bankers and financial elites whose actions precipitated the collapse. Lucid, authoritative, provocative—a book that will shape the economic conversation and the search for new solutions.

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

eBook, 352 pages | Knopf | Political Science - Economic Policy; Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International | $13.99 | 978-0-307-95981-2 (0-307-95981-3)

From the Hardcover edition.

Confucius Lives Next Door by T.R. Reid

2013-04-24T00:30:00-05:00

Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Written by T.R. Reid

eBook, 288 pages | Vintage | Political Science - International Relations; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Business & Economics - International | $11.99 | 978-0-307-83386-0 (0-307-83386-0)

Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic or  The Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in whatever subject he's discussing. In Confucius Lives Next Door he brings all these attributes to the fore as he examines why Japan, China, Taiwan, and other East Asian countries enjoy the low crime rates, stable families, excellent education, and civil harmony that remain so elusive in the West. Reid, who has spent twenty-five years studying Asia and was for five years The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, uses his family's experience overseas--including mishaps and misapprehensions--to look at Asia's "social miracle" and its origin in the ethical values outlined by the Chinese sage Confucius 2,500 years ago.

When Reid, his wife, and their three children moved from America to Japan, the family quickly became accustomed to the surface differences between the two countries. In Japan, streets don't have names, pizza comes with seaweed sprinkled on top, and businesswomen in designer suits and Ferragamo shoes go home to small concrete houses whose washing machines are outdoors because there's no room inside. But over time Reid came to appreciate the deep cultural differences, helped largely by his courtly white-haired neighbor Mr. Matsuda, who personified ancient Confucian values that are still dominant in Japan. Respect, responsibility, hard work--these and other principles are evident in Reid's witty, perfectly captured portraits, from that of the school his young daughters attend, in which the students maintain order and scrub the floors, to his depiction of the corporate ceremony that welcomes new employees and reinforces group unity. And Reid also examines the drawbacks of living in such a society, such as the ostracism of those who don't fit in and the acceptance of routine political bribery.

Much Western ink has been spilled trying to figure out the East, but few journalists approach the subject with T. R. Reid's familiarity and insight. Not until we understand the differences between Eastern and Western perceptions of what constitutes success and personal happiness will we be able to engage successfully, politically and economically, with those whose moral center is governed by Confucian doctrine. Fascinating and immensely readable, Confucius Lives Next Door prods us to think about what lessons we might profitably take from the "Asian Way"--and what parts of it we want to avoid.

The Keys to the Kingdom by Jeff Shear

2013-04-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Keys to the Kingdom
Written by Jeff Shear

eBook | Doubleday | Business & Economics - Development & Growth; Business & Economics - International; Business & Economics - Accounting - International | $17.99 | 978-0-307-83220-7 (0-307-83220-1)

The United States is in a war. This war is not fought with missiles and bullets, but with dollars, yen, and deutsche marks. This is a war for dominance in the global marketplace, a war for economic supremacy. The United States is losing this war. Year after year, tens of billions of dollars flow from American bank accounts to Japanese pockets—the stark meaning of the oft-cited "merchandise trade deficit"—half a trillion dollars worth in the last decade. The United States is not losing because the Japanese are devious, or mercenary, or "unfair traders." We are losing because of our own greed, myopia, and arrogance. The Keys to the Kingdom, a masterful account of bureaucratic ineptitude, political bloodshed, high-level intrigue, and sometimes breathtaking stupidity, chronicles the first major battle in this war. Aerospace and aviation products are America's most lucrative exports, bringing in billions of dollars and providing millions of high-wage jobs. The Japanese, having developed world-class auto, steel, and electronics industries (in the process devastating large segments of the American economy), make no secret of the fact that aviation and aerospace are their next targets. Despite these high stakes, the government of the United States, incredibly, agreed to give the Japanese some of the most sensitive, state-of-the-art aviation technology and design information America possesses—to build a plane called the FS-X. How this astonishing event transpired is the subject of The Keys to the Kingdom.

China Airborne by James Fallows

2013-02-26T00:30:00-05:00

China Airborne The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - International; History - China; Technology - Aeronautics & Astronautics | $15.95 | 978-1-4000-3127-6 (1-4000-3127-3)

From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.

In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China’s project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation’s hyper-growth and hyper-urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century.

Completing this remarkable picture, Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi’an, home to 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly-line workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China’s pursuit of aeronautical supremacy. He concludes by explaining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and for the rest of the world—and the right ways for us to respond.

China's Silent Army by Catherine Mansfield

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Written by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
Translated by Catherine Mansfield

Hardcover, 368 pages | Crown | Business & Economics - International | $26.00 | 978-0-385-34657-3 (0-385-34657-3)

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc.

Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araújo crisscrossed the globe from 2009-2011 to investigate how the Chinese are literally making the developing world in their own image. What they discovered is a human story, an economic story, and a political story, one that is changing the course of history and that has never been explored, or reported, in depth and on the ground. The “silent army” to which the authors refer is made up of the many ordinary Chinese citizens working around the world - in the oil industry in Kazakhstan, mining minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, building dams in Ecuador, selling hijabs in Cairo - who are contributing to China's global dominance while also leaving their mark in less salutary ways. With original and fresh reporting as well as top-notch writing, China's Silent Army takes full advantage of the Spanish-speaking authors' outsider experience to reveal China's influence abroad in all its most vital implications - for foreign policy, trade, private business, and the environment.

China's Silent Army by Catherine Mansfield

2013-02-19T00:30:00-05:00

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Written by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
Translated by Catherine Mansfield

eBook, 368 pages | Crown | Business & Economics - International | $13.99 | 978-0-385-34658-0 (0-385-34658-1)

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

2012-12-04T00:30:00-05:00

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley

Trade Paperback, 384 pages | Seven Stories Press | Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Conditions; Political Science - Communism & Socialism | $18.95 | 978-1-60980-431-2 (1-60980-431-7)

With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism's decline and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel decay of Western economies, still reluctant to consider China's model even as they acknowledge its tremendous power. Maonomics is a call to heed China's example and avoid economic collapse.

Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years Maonomics considers the prevailing Chinese views and translates them for Western readers. For example, the Chinese are committed to a vision of democracy, though it is different from the West's. It emphasizes economic opportunity over voting, focusing on the fair distribution of wealth and prosperity. Napoleoni also separates failed Leninist political ideology from true Marxist theory, explaining that Marx's writings do not reject profit so long as it is used to benefit the people. China is realizing Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat, she argues, with giant steps towards wellbeing and prosperity for the Chinese people. Looking at the Chinese economy up close, few economists could deny that they are on the right track. Maonomics delivers a sharp and insightful account of the economic revolution that is shifting the global balance of power from West to East.

China Airborne by James Fallows

2012-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

China Airborne
Written by James Fallows

Hardcover, 288 pages | Pantheon | Business & Economics - International; Transportation - Aviation; History - China | $25.95 | 978-0-375-42211-9 (0-375-42211-0)

More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. Its goal is to produce the Boeings and Airbuses of the future. Toward that end, it acquired two American companies: Cirrus Aviation, maker of the world’s most popular small propeller plane, and Teledyne Continental, which produces the engines for Cirrus and other small aircraft.

In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of this project and explains why it is a crucial test case for China’s hopes for modernization and innovation in other industries. He makes clear how it stands to catalyze the nation’s hyper-growth and hyper- urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century. Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi’an, home to more than 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China’s pursuit of aerospace supremacy. He concludes by examining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and the rest of the world—and the right ways to understand it.

China Airborne by James Fallows

2012-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

China Airborne
Written by James Fallows

eBook, 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - International; Transportation - Aviation; History - China | $11.99 | 978-0-307-90740-0 (0-307-90740-6)

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Hardcover, 544 pages | Crown Business | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $30.00 | 978-0-307-71921-8 (0-307-71921-9)

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

eBook, 544 pages | Crown Business | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $15.99 | 978-0-307-71923-2 (0-307-71923-5)

Why Nations Fail by Dan Woren

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren

Unabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $50.00 | 978-0-307-98745-7 (0-307-98745-0)

Why Nations Fail by Dan Woren

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Business & Economics - Economic History; Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Policy | $24.00 | 978-0-307-98746-4 (0-307-98746-9)

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

2011-10-11T00:30:00-05:00

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley

eBook | Seven Stories Press | Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Conditions; Political Science - Communism & Socialism | $26.95 | 978-1-60980-352-0 (1-60980-352-3)

The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent of the Chinese economic miracle and the parallel course of the West’s ongoing insistence on misconstruing China and its economy even as we acknowledge its growing influence and importance. Maonomics is a warning call whereby Western governments can avoid economic collapse by learning how to understand more clearly what the lessons of the Chinese economy really are. Based on first-hand reporting from China during frequent visits in the last several years, Maonomics lends credence to the Chinese view and translates it for Western readers. For example, the Chinese too are attached to their vision of democracy, but it is different from ours. It isn’t focused as much on voting as it is economic opportunity and the fair distribution of wealth and prosperity. Napoleoni also separates failed Leninist political ideology from true Marxist theory, showing that Marx’s writings do not reject profit so long as it is used to benefit the people. Marx’s dictatorship of the proletariat is being realized in China, she argues, where giant steps forward are being made in the name of progress and the wellbeing and prosperity of the Chinese people. Looking at the Chinese economy up close, any economist would be hard pressed to say that they are not on the right track. Here Loretta Napoleoni offers a front row seat on the greatest show on earth: the peaceful economic revolution that is shifting the balance of power in the world from West to East.

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

2011-10-04T00:30:00-05:00

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley

Hardcover, 384 pages | Seven Stories Press | Business & Economics - International; Political Science - Economic Conditions; Political Science - Communism & Socialism | $26.95 | 978-1-60980-341-4 (1-60980-341-8)

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - International

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Cool War by Noah Feldman

Cool War The Future of Global CompetitionWritten by Noah Feldman Read by Noah Feldman

Story of My People by Edoardo Nesi

Story of My People Written by Edoardo Nesi

Story of My People by Edoardo Nesi

Story of My People Written by Edoardo Nesi

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus PossibilityWritten by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus PossibilityWritten by Robert Kuttner

Confucius Lives Next Door by T.R. Reid

Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the WestWritten by T.R. Reid

The Keys to the Kingdom by Jeff Shear

The Keys to the Kingdom Written by Jeff Shear

China Airborne by James Fallows

China Airborne The Test of China's FutureWritten by James Fallows

China's Silent Army by Catherine Mansfield

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's ImageWritten by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo Translated by Catherine Mansfield

China's Silent Army by Catherine Mansfield

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's ImageWritten by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo Translated by Catherine Mansfield

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We DoWritten by Loretta Napoleoni Translated by Stephen Twilley

China Airborne by James Fallows

China Airborne Written by James Fallows

China Airborne by James Fallows

China Airborne Written by James Fallows

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Why Nations Fail by James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Why Nations Fail by Dan Woren

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Read by Dan Woren

Why Nations Fail by Dan Woren

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and PovertyWritten by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson Read by Dan Woren

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We DoWritten by Loretta Napoleoni Translated by Stephen Twilley

Maonomics by Stephen Twilley

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We DoWritten by Loretta Napoleoni Translated by Stephen Twilley

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Cool War The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Read by Noah Feldman

Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi

Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

Debtors' Prison The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Written by Robert Kuttner

Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West
Written by T.R. Reid

The Keys to the Kingdom
Written by Jeff Shear

China Airborne The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Written by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
Translated by Catherine Mansfield

China's Silent Army The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Written by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
Translated by Catherine Mansfield

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley

China Airborne
Written by James Fallows

China Airborne
Written by James Fallows

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Read by Dan Woren

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley

Maonomics Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley