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Book Club

             

 

I.          DEVELOPMENT LAW AND THEORY

 

1.               Maartya Sen, Development as Freedom (OUP Oxford 1999) *

 

2.               Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital (Black Swan London 2000) *

 

3.               David Reid, Sustainable Development (Earthscan London 2005) *

 

4.               Frederic S. Mishkin, The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, unpublished book manuscript, December 2005)

 

5.               Martin Meredith, The State of Africa (The Free Trade Press 2005)

 

II.         DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALISATION

 

6.               Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation and Its Discontents (Penguin Books London) *

 

7.               Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work (W W Norwich/Penguin Books 2006) *

 

8.               Joseph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties (Penguin Books London 2003)

 

9.               Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defence of Globalisation (OUP Oxford 2004) *

 

10.             Martin Wolf, Why Globalisation Works (Yale Nota Bene 2005) *

 

11.             George Soros, On Globalisation (Public Affairs) *

 

12.             Thomas L Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Anchor Books New York 2000)

 

13.             Richard Langhorne, The Coming of Globalisation: Its Evolution and Contemporary Consequences (St Martin’s Press 2001)

 

14.             Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, Globalisation in Question (Polity 2000)

 

III.        GLOBALISATION CRITIQUE

 

15.             Alex MacGillivray, Globalization (Robinson London) 2006

 

16.             Philippe Legrain, Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (Abacus London 2002)

 

17.             Peter Singer, One World – The Ethics of Globalisation (Yale University Press, Newhaven & London 2004)

 

18.             Justin Rosenberg, The Follies of Globalisation Theory (Verso Books 2001)

 

19.             Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat:- The Globalised World of the 21st Century (Penguin Books 2006)

 

IV.        CAPITALISM AND FREE MARKETS

 

20.             Ayn Rand, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal (Signet Books USA 1967) *

 

21.             Ayn Rand, For the New Capitalism (Signet Books USA 1961)

 

22.             John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Company – A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Chronicles USA 2005)

 

23.             Joel Bakan, The Corporation – The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Constable London 2004

 

24.             John Gray, False Dawn – the Delusions of Global Capitalism (Granta Books London 2002)

                                                                                            

 

    CAPITALIST CRITIQUE

 

25.             Jonathon Porritt, Capitalism – As if the World Matters (Earthscan London 2005)

 

26.             Noreena Hertz, The Silent Takeover – Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy (Arrow Books London) 2002

 

27.             Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens (Eds), Global Capitalism (New Press 2000)

 

28.             Deepak Lai, Reviving the Invisible Hand (Princeton University Press 2006)

 

29.             Brink Lindsey, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (John Wiley & Sons 2001)

 

30.             Naomi Klein, No Logo (Harper Perennial London 2005)

 

31.             Edward M Graham, Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Anti-Global Activists and Multinational Enterprises (Institution for International Economics 2000)                                                                               

      DEVELOPMENT AND FREE TRADE

 

32.             Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Oxford University Press 2005)

 

33.             Kevin P. Gallagher (ed), Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and International Financial Institutions (Zed Books 2005)

 

34.             Barry Eichengreen, Financial Crises (OUP Oxford 2002) *                             FINANCIAL CRISES

 

35.             Richard Duncan, Tje Dollar Crises – Cause, Consequences and Cures (John Wiley & Sons Singapore 2003)

 

36.             Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed – The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Fourth Estate London 2002)

 

37.             Deirdre N McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues (Chicago University Press 2006)

 

V.        INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT

 

38.             Morten Boas and Desmond McNeill, Multilateral Institutions – A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press, London,

Stirling, Virginia 2003) *

 

39.             Sebastian Mallaby, The World’s Banker – A Story of Failed States, Financial crises and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Penguin Books London 2004)

 

(1)        NATIONAL STATE IDENTIY                                INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

 

40.             Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations – Order and Chaos in the Twenty First Century (Atlantic Books London 2003)

 

41.             Erwin Laszlo, The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads (2006)

 

42.             Philippe Sands, Lawless World (Penguin Books London 2005)

 

43.             Chris Brown, Understanding International Relations (Palgrave New York 2001)

 

44.             Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Blackwell Publishing 2000)

 

(2)        CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY                DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE

 

45.             Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon & Schuster London 1996) *

 

46.             Amy Chua, World on Fire (Arrow Books London 2003)

 

(3)        GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION           SUSTAINABLE DVELOPMENT

 

47.             Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) *

 

48.             Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy – the Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power of Earth  (Penguin New York 2003)

 

49.             Bjorn Lomborg, The Sceptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge University Press 2001)

 

50.             Bjorn Lomborg, How to Spend $50bn to make the World a Better Place (Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2006)

 

(4)        COLLECTIVE PEACE AND SECURITY                   DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT 

 

51.             Michael Klare, Blood and Oil (Penguin Books 2004) *

 

52.             Paul Roberts, The End of Oil (Bloomsbury London 2005)

 

53.             Dominic McGoldrick, From ‘9-11’ to the ‘Iraq War 2003’ (Hart Publishing, Oxford & Portland, Oregon 2004)

 

54.             Jason Burke, Al Qaeda – the True Story of Radical Islam (Penguin Books 2004) 

 

55.             Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (2002)                     UNITED STATES

 

56.             Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Penguin Books)

 

57.             George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy (Phoenix London 2004)

 

58.             Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (Harper Perennial 2005)

 

59.             Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies, Why do People Hate America (Icon Books 2004)

 

60.             Niall Ferguson, Colossus – The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin Books London 2004)

UNITED KINGDOM

61.             Niall Ferguson, Empire – How Britain Made the Modern World (Penguin Books London 2003)

 

62.             Mark Curtis, The Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World (Vintage 2003)

 

63.             Will Hutton, The World We’re (Ababcus 2002)

 

(4)        DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION                                           HUMAN RIGHTS

 

64.             William K Tabb, The Amoral Elephant: Globalisation and the Struggle for Social Justice in the 21st Century (Monthly Review Press 2001)

 

65.             Howard Bloom, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (John Wiley & Sons 2001)

Recommended texts by Professor Walker 

Development Law & Theory
Globalisation
Globalisation Critique
Capitalism & Free markets
Intl Fin.Institutions & Development

DEVELOMENT LAW DEBATE                                                      

 

Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty (Penguin Books London 2005)         

 

 

I.        DEVELOPMENT LAW AND THEORY
II.      DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALISATION
III.    GLOBALISATION CRITIQUE
IV.     CAPITALISM AND FREE MARKETS 
V.       INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT 
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