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  • The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean

    Economic Statecraft, China and Strategic Realignments

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean. The primary argument is that the Caribbean’s geopolitics have shifted from a period of relative great power disinterest in the aftermath of the Cold War to a gradual movement into a new Cold War in which a global rivalry between the U.S. and China is acted out regionally. The result of this is a gradual polarization of countries in ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations

    Portuguese Foreign Policy Under the Second Republic, 1979-1992

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    With the fall of its centuries-old empire in 1974-1975, Portugal embarked on a transitional period that reconciled a long tradition of acting out national interests overseas with the need to integrate itself into Western Europe. The result has been a deemphasis on various Atlantic and colonial linkages and the forging of a new and highly successful European identity within the framework of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • State Capitalism's Uncertain Future

    by Scott B. MacDonald, Jonathan Lemco ...
    A provocative and timely look at the current state of global economics, particularly how the state-owned companies of Russia, China, Latin America, and other emerging markets are influencing how people work, how they consume, and how they prosper.The global economy is changing: experts are noting slow growth in the advanced economies, greater volatility in international markets, and the emergence ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Fast Forward

    Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Latin America is developing rapidly. As the authors see the region, a small group of countries has found a fast-forward button. In these countries change is exciting, occurring at such a rapid pace that a major breakthrough hi economic growth appears within grasp. After an almost decade-long period of recession and stagnation, many Latin American economies now have elected governments. With a few ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Separating Fools from Their Money

    A History of American Financial Scandals

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Separating Fools from Their Money
    What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street?These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • When Small Countries Crash

    by Scott B. MacDonald, Andrew Novo ...
    The public is fascinated with financial crashes. Historians portray the roar of an angry mob toppling presidents or prime ministers and destroying the property of those who are regarded as malefactors. And certainly, financial crisis is often a factor in political change. It is often overlooked, but nonetheless significant that one of the major causes for the French Revolution was the poor state ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Separating Fools from Their Money

    A History of American Financial Scandals

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    Series series Separating Fools from Their Money
    What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A History of Credit and Power in the Western World

    by Scott B. MacDonald ...
    The end of the Cold War put the planet on a new track, abruptly replacing the familiar world of bipolarity, red phones, and intercontinental ballistic missiles with the strange new world of the Internet, e-commerce, and Palm Pilots. The "New World Order" was defined by a U.S.-led war against Iraq, bloody ethnic strife in Bosnia and Rwanda, and religious turmoil in Central Asia. This evolving ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Money and Power

    How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

    by William D. Cohan ...
    The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable than all of its competitors. Behind closed doors, however, the firm constantly straddles the line ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Great Depression: A Diary

    by Benjamin Roth ...
    A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good—until the stock market crash of 1929. After ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Last Man Standing

    The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

    by Duff McDonald ...
    In the midst of the most disastrous economic climate of Wall Street’s history, one executive has weathered the storm more deftly than any other: Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. In 2008, while Dimon’s competitors watched their companies crumble, JPMorgan not only survived, it made an astonishing $5 billion profit. Dimon’s continued triumph in the face of an industry-wide meltdown ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lords of Easy Money

    How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

    by Christopher Leonard ...
    The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic stab... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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