Books that Explore the Global Economy
Basics of the Global Economy
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, by Arundhati Roy, South End Press (2004).
Big Business, Poor Peoples; The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor, by John Madeley, Zed Books (1999).
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, by Vandana Shiva, South End Press (2001).
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins, Berrett Koehler (2004).
Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity by Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, New Press (2005).
Economic Democracy; The Political Struggle for the 21st Century, by J.W. Smith, 1st Books (2002)
Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz, W. W. Norton and Company (2003).
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era by Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz , Routledge Press (2002).
No Nonsense Guide to Globalization, by Wayne Ellwood, Verso (2001).
Public Power in the Age of Empire, by Arundhati Roy, Seven Stories Press (2004).
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development, by Shiva, Vandana, Zed Books (1999).
Stolen Harvest, by Vandana Shiva, South End Press (1999).
Field Guide to the Global Economy by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, New Press (2000).
The IMF and The World Bank at Sixty, by Ariel Buira (Editor), Anthem Press (2005).
The Liberal Virus, by Samir Amin, Monthly Review Press (2004).
The New Global Economy and Developing Countries : Making Openness Work, by Dani Rodrik, Overseas Development Council (1998).
The Political Economy of Social Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life, By Vicente Navarro, Baywood (2002).
The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy by James Heintz and Nancy Folbre, New Press (2000).
The International Crisis of Debt and Sub-Saharan Africa
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions, by Nicolas van de Walle, Cambridge University Press (2001, 2005).
Alternative Budgets: Budgeting as if People Mattered, by Loxley, John, Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2003.
Eyes of the Heart, by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Common Courage Press (2000).
Depoliticizing Development; The World Bank and Social Capital, by John Harriss, Anthem Press (2001).
Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (2nd Edition), by Richard H. Robbins, Allyn and Bacon (2001)
In the Public Interest? Privatisation and Public Sector Reform, by Brendan Martin, Zed Books (1991).
Reality of Aid, The; An Independent Review of Poverty Reduction and Development Assistance, by Judith Randel, Tony German and Deborah Ewing (Editors), Earthscan (2000).
Reforming The Governance of the IMF and the World Bank, by Ariel Buira (Editor), Anthem Press (2005).
Rethinking Development Economics, by Ha-Joon Chang (Editor), Anthem Press (2003).
Transfer of Wealth, The Debt and the making of a Global South, by Focus on Global South, Focus on Global South (2000).
The Grip of Death: a study of modern money, debt slavery, and destructive economics, by Michael Rowbotham, Jon Carpenter Publishing (1998).
Who Owes Who?: 50 Questions about World Debt, by Damien Millet, Zed Books (2005).
You can't eat GNP; Economics as if Ecology Mattered, by Eric A. Davidson, Perseus Publishing (2000).
Race and Development
1492: the Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and History, by J.M. Blaut, Africa World Press (1993).
Before European Hegemony; The World System A.D. 1250-1350, by Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Oxford University Press (1989).
Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America by Dalton Conley University of California (1999).
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams. 1944.
Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, Vintage Books (1993).
Dark Victory, by Walden Bello, Pluto Press, Food First, Transnational Institute (1994, Second Edition 1999).
Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen, Random House (1999).
From Columbus to Castro : The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969 by Eric Williams, Vintage (1984).
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney, Howard University Press(1982).
The Colonizer's Model of the World -- Geographic Diffusionism and Eurocentric History, by J.M. Blaut, The Guilford Press (1994).
The White Man’s Burden; Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest have Done So Much Ill and so Little Good, by William Easterly, Penguin Press (2006).
The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits from Past Injustices, edited by Richard F. America, Greenwood Press (1990).
Organizing for Solutions
Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible by John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, Berrett Koehler (2004).
Private Planet; Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back, by David Cromwell, Jon Carpenter (2001).
Reclaiming Development: an Economic Policy Handbook for Activists and Policy Makers, by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel, Zed Books (2004).
Rethinking Globalization - Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson, Rethinking Schools Press (2002).
The Global Activist’s Manual: Local Ways to Change the World edited by Mike Prokosch and Laura Raymond, Nation Books (2002).
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