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"Most individuals and institutions hold the preponderance of their investments in common stocks, corporate bonds, mutual funds, index funds, muni bonds, money markets, bank CDs, and Treasury securities. But these conventional investments will not do well in a world dominated by corrupt, debt-laden governments and thieving bankers, brokers and middlemen. Finance guru John R. Talbott, prescient predictor of the financial crisis and the housing market...
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There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has...
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Publisher Annotation: Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way. 320pp., 150K
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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"The extraordinary inside story of the LEGO company--producer of the most beloved and popular toy on the planet--based on unprecedented access to the founding family that still owns the company, chronicling the brand's improbable journey to become the empire that it is today"--
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Many traders feel that the key to successful and profitable trading lies solely in finding the "perfect system," or at least a highly profitable trading method. They fail to realize, and never learn, that without understanding themselves, and mastering the psychological aspect of trading, they will never be truly successful. Without the proper discipline and dedication, any system or method becomes ineffective. In this classic book, the attitude,...
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"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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" ... [A]cclaimed historian H.W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis."--Page [4] of jacket.
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A study in conflict between a powerful industry and a struggling nation: "This fine monograph... addresses an important issue in Mexican history."-The Americas
Mexico was second only to the United States as the world's largest oil producer in the years following the Mexican Revolution. As the revolutionary government became institutionalized, it sought to assure its control of Mexico's oil resources through the Constitution of 1917, which returned...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called "tigers" or "mini-dragons," and were seen as not just development prodigies, but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. Joe Studwell has spent two decades as a reporter in the region. In How Asia Works, Studwell distills his extensive research...
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What if you could look behind the headlines of the global economy to see how it really worked? Instead of listening to pundits, politicians, and protestors, you could see firsthand how everyone from migrant workers to central bank governors lived their lives. Then you could decide for yourself where the big trends were heading.
Now you can. Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn't another polemic for or against globalization. Daniel Altman...
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This book is about a radical idea: the idea that each of us deserves enough money on which to live - and that it should be paid independently of our personal means, and independently of whether we work, or even want to work.
The concept of 'basic income' has been discussed internationally and has the potential to revolutionise the way that society functions. It would provide greater security for the young, for the self-employed and entrepreneurs...
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Meet your new global consumer
You've heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers?
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• There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers in China and India within the next ten years?
• More than 135 million Chinese and Indians will graduate from college in this timeframe, compared to just 30...
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Jack Leblanc shares the lessons he has learnt in 20 years of doing business in China. His career has included stints as a salesman, dotcom entrepreneur, venture capital broker, business consultant, and finally cross-cultural troubleshooter, solving problems between foreign investors and their Chinese counterparts. Each chapter is, written in story form and covers a situation that investors are likely to face: for instance, disputes over intellectual...
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International business requires a deep level of industry insight but also a keen understanding of the cultural differences that impact how business is done. If you're an American working in China or Japan for the first time, you may not realize the way each culture thinks and reasons is quite different from your own, which can lead to frequent misunderstandings.
You may be unaware, for example, that Americans reason in a linear manner, Chinese in...
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The era of globalization saw China emerge as the world's manufacturing titan. However, the "made in China" model-with its reliance on cheap labor and thin profits-has begun to wane. Beginning in the 2000s, the Chinese state shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting the technological competitiveness of domestic firms. This shift caused tensions between winners and losers, leading local bureaucrats to compete for resources in government...
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Este libro propone elementos para repensar la integración latinoamericana, con la uti-lización como casos de estudio del Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur) y la Alianza del Pacífico. En los diversos capítulos del libro, se explican las razones por las cuales el regionalismo económico en América Latina mantiene una lógica de avances iniciales, retrocesos y estancamiento sin llegar a consolidarse de manera definitiva. En este análisis, se consideran...
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Thanks for joining me on this journey! In order to create very clear venation for you as reader and international business learner, this book has been formatted into an easy to follow step by step system. In this book, you will find the breakdown of a well planned system of importing from China. This detailed procedure has evolved over decades, utilising the practices from well experienced international trading partners. There is no absolute typical...
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La manera oprobiosa en que se está negociando el TTIP entre la Unión Europea y EEUU, caracterizada por la desinformación y una insultante falta de transparencia, no nos exime de responsabilidad a la hora de informarnos y librar la batalla contra su aplicación en los términos en que se está planteando. Batalla para la que esta perfecta síntesis nos pertrecha maravillosamente.
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Los autores estudian la relación de Colombia con Emiratos Arabes Unidos como un Estado representativo en el Medio Oriente, en tanto la dinámica comercial que ha desarrollado durante los últimos años y su disposición a la negociación con la región latinoamericana. Proponen un análisis vinculado a factores macroeconómicos, competitivos, de atracción, políticos, culturales y de internacionalización, y plantean una serie de propuestas estratégicas...
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