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Trade Wars are Class Wars
"This is a very important book."--Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award "Worth reading for [the authors'] insights into the history of trade and finance."--George Melloan, Wall Street Journal Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retir...
The Volatility Machine
This book presents a radically different argument for what has caused, and likely will continue to cause, the collapse of emerging market economies. Pettis combines the insights of economic history, economic theory, and finance theory into a comprehensive model for understanding sovereign liability management and the causes of financial crises. He examines recent financial crises in emerging market countries along with the history of international lending since the 1820s to argue that the process of international lending is driven primarily by external events and not by local politics and/or economic policies. He draws out the corporate finance implications of this approach to argue that mos...
Avoiding the Fall
The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. The only question is how to proceed. Michael Pettis debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China's economic rise and details Beijing's options. The urgent task of shifting toward greater domestic consumption will come with political costs, but Beijing must increase household income and reduce its reliance on investment to avoid a fall.
What We Owe Each Other
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated,...
Summary of Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis's Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Before we can understand how to fix trade, we need to understand what trade is. I. What Is Trade. -> Before we can understand how to fix trade, we must first understand what trade is. Trade today looks nothing like it did before. Companies spread complex manufacturing supply chains across multiple countries to minimize taxes. #2 People get more done when they specialize. International trade is simply an extension of this process across national borders. #3 International trade is simply the extension of specialization, which was first described by the Italian merchant and economist Bartolomeo Visconti in 1277. Specialization is good for both Portuguese and English capitalists, but only if they can trade cloth for wine with each other. #4 International trade is simply the extension of specialization, which was first described by the Italian merchant and economist Bartolomeo Visconti in 1277. Specialization is good for both Portuguese and English capitalists, but only if they can trade cloth for wine with each other.
The Jungle Book
A first novelty board book about The Jungle Book, with push, pull and slide mechanisms.The wild adventures of Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book are well-loved, timeless tales of growing up and finding a place in the world. First Stories: The Jungle Book is a perfect introduction for young children to this classic story and its host of animal characters. Push, pull and slide mechanisms to bring the story to life and see favourite scenes in action. Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and of course the fearsome tiger Shere Khan are all beautifully imagined by Miriam Bos in her bold, appealing illustrations.
COVID-19 and World Order
Leading global experts, brought together by Johns Hopkins University, discuss national and international trends in a post-COVID-19 world. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. As Henry Kissinger warned, "The coronavirus epidemic will forever alter the world order." What will be the consequences of the pandemic, and what will a post-COVID world order look like? No institution is better suited to address these issues than Johns Hopkins University, which has...
Global Political Ecology
The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: e...
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars
In recent years, the opposition to trade liberalization and globalization of capital markets has increased. It also led to the popularity of the 'Trump narrative',1 coined by Lamp regarding the winners and losers in economic globalization. According to this narrative, workers are engaged in a zero-sum competition over jobs: the workers in trade surplus countries such as China 'steal' the jobs of the workers in the US, a deficit country. Hence, the new book Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, authored by Matthew C. Klein, the economics commentator at Barron's, and Michael Pettis, Professor of finance at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, is a timely must-read for anyone who is interested in discovering some real causes of trade wars, and seeking an answer to the question: 'who are the winners and losers of economic globalization'
