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Right Relationship by ISBN: 9781576757628Publication Date: 2009-02-09Paper: SUMMIT
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Our current economic system is unsustainable. Its fundamental elements -- unlimited growth and endless wealth accumulation -- fly in the face of the fact that the Earths resources are clearly finite. The destructive effects of this denial of reality are wreaking havoc on our ecological and social systems.
But what is the alternative? We need to go beyond simply fixing problems as they arise, or even as we anticipate them, and offer a comprehensive new economic model. It is a moral imperative.
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The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it by Call Number: HC79.P6 C634 2007ISBN: 9780195311457Publication Date: 2007-05-25Paper:MLRC Stacks | SUMMIT
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Global poverty is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty.
These fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. This group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards.
A struggle rages within each of these nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, and offers a bold new plan.
The End of Growth: adapting to our new economic reality by ISBN: 9780865716957Publication Date: 2011-08-09Paper: SUMMIT
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Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits.
The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. Shows why growth is being blocked by three factors: (1) Resource depletion; (2) Environmental impacts; and (3) Crushing levels of debt.
Describes what policy makers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth’s budget of energy and resources. We can thrive during the transition if we set goals that promote human and environmental well-being, rather than continuing to pursue the now-unattainable prize of ever-expanding GDP.
One World: the ethics of globalization by Call Number: JZ1318 .S583 2002ISBN: 0300096860Publication Date: 2002-10-11Paper: MLRC Stacks | SUMMIT
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Encompasses four main global issues:
1. Climate change
2. Role of the World Trade Organization
3. Human rights and humanitarian intervention
4. Foreign aid
Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today.
Fair trade for all : how trade can promote development by ISBN: 0199290903Publication Date: 2006-01-05Print: SUMMIT
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How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade?
Puts forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries, designed to open up markets in the interests of all nations and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimize the costs of adjustments.
Spells out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based.
