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The economic battleground is about to change. For the past two decades, the intense conflict between America and Japan has been played out on U.S. soil, as Japanese companies have become dominant producers of cars, computers, and electronics. But now the European Community has become the world's largest market, and this new arena will be the site of an even more important competition with Japan. As Tim Jackson explains in this provocative book, Europe...

Central Florida, a land of pleasure for most of its visitors, has also for many years harbored a subculture of often exploited migrant workers. For these people, life was an ordeal to be withstood. Into this grim world the writes of this book ventured, key participants in an experiment mounted by their organization, HRI, Human Resources Institute, under sponsorship of The Coco-Cola Company, which had taken over the orange groves where the migrant...

In Trust, a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of both left and right. In fact, economic life is pervaded by culture and depends, Fukuyama maintains, on moral bonds of social trust. This is the unspoken, unwritten bond between...

Study of rural area intergroup relations and social conflict of the peasantry in the face of social change and capitalist agricultural development in Mexico - challenges the views on peasant farmer proletarianization held by orthodox Marxism; analyses the debate on agrarian structures; looks at production relations, agricultural marketing, agricultural credit, contract farming, etc.; discusses indigenous community organisation, peasant movements fighting...

This book offers both information on the economics behind ending poverty as well as hands-on practical advice to guide individual action. It explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty and gives readers the tools they need to help people overcome poverty and determine what approaches are most effective in fighting it.

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"Expressed in such new institutions as GATT, NAFTA, the World Trade Organizations, and Maastricht, as well as by the development schemes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, economic globalization has been bulldozed through legislative bodies throughout the world, with scant public debate or discourse." "These tremendous changes are hailed by their backers as leading to a new era or prosperity and peace, but is this true?" "Now,...