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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of CapitalismBad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveKicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang
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Globalization and Its DiscontentsGlobalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C) by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Dependency And Marxism: Toward A Resolution Of The DebateDependency And Marxism: Toward A Resolution Of The Debate by Ronald H. Chilcote
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Two important theories; kill both birds with one stone.
Chile: the Great TransformationChile: the Great Transformation by Javier Martinez
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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Planet of SlumsPlanet of Slums by Mike Davis
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere ElseThe Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
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Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth CenturyGlobal Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry A. Frieden
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Fifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary FundFifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
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Sandinista Economics in Practice: An Insider's Critical ReflectionsSandinista Economics in Practice: An Insider's Critical Reflections by Alejandro Martinez Cuenca
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The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (Dialogos (Albuquerque, N.M.).)The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (Dialogos (Albuquerque, N.M.).) by Thomas F. O'Brien
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How Europe Underdeveloped AfricaHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
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Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global EconomyExploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy by Toby Shelley
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Radical DemocracyRadical Democracy by C. Douglas Lummis
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The chapter called "Antidemocratic Development" is really worth reading; it equally indicts both capitalist and socialist societies for their obsessive focus on economic development, and the production of surplus value, as ends in themselves, when these should rightly be seen as just a means to an end: namely people's subjective welare/happiness. Not groundbreaking, but quite well written.
The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It BackThe Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back by Jeff Faux
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