"This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living. Environmental barriers, limited access to services and discriminatory attitudes and practice are among key elements that drive disabled peopl…
A radical and challenging look at the future of the entire world economy, zooming in on specific investment recommendations. A tour de force" --Peter Brimelow, Columnist, MarketWatch. "No one can ignore this book's central message: The global cultural, economic, military, and p…
"The macroeconomic experience of emerging and developing economies has tended to be quite different from that of industrial countries. Compared to industrial countries, emerging and developing economies have tended to be much more unstable, with more severe boom/bust cycles, epi…
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order -- two hundred years in the making -- was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income …