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In this fast-paced companion book to Robert Greenwald's explosive documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, author Greg Spotts takes you behind the scenes of the making of this controversial film and the grass-roots pressure campaign challenging one of the world's largest and most powerful companies.
The story of a wide-ranging investigation that was kept secret from its target, this book describes Greenwald and his crew on a nine-month journey filled with breakthrough moments and unexpected challenges. Given unlimited access to the filmmakers, Spotts reveals the new tactics and technologies that are revolutionizing political filmmaking, offering inspiration for aspiring filmmakers and activists.
Director Robert Greenwald shares his filmmaking goals in an exclusive introduction. Revealing behind-the-scenes photographs and stills from the film "Filmmaker's Toolbox" sidebars provide inside knowledge on how to make and market a political documentary.
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Not What I Expected.......2007-01-17
I learned of the subject matter through my brother, who advised me that I "had to" learn about this information. I went to Amazon to buy the book, admittedly not scanning the reviews first. Big mistake. This book involves a behind the scenes at the "making of" the documentary film. It does not discuss with any great detail the issues or criticisms of Walmart, which is what I was really looking to know. As anxious as I was to receive and read the book, I am disappointed now. If anyone is interested in these issues, it would be my advice to get and watch the film---do not buy this book.
The making of the film - with unlimited access to the filmmakers.......2006-03-18
This companion to Robert Greenwald's documentary WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE provides a behind-the-scenes focus on both the making of the film and the grass-roots pressure campaign challenging the world's biggest business. Greenwald and his crew went on a nine-month underground investigation kept secret from Wal-Mart as they put together their film: Spotts received unlimited access to the filmmakers and reveals their tactics, objectives, and how political filmmaking is changing businesses and the film world alike. It's hard to easily categorize this book - it could just as easily have been featured in our film column - but businesses shouldn't miss the discussion of the film methods and focus, which hold wide-reaching implications for future political film surveys of business inner circles.
Fantastic Insider's Look at the Top Doc of 2005.......2005-12-24
Wow - what a great window into the new docs that seem to be springing up like mushrooms in response to the political and social issues of the day. Along with Michael Moore, there's no doubt that Robert Greenwald is the leading director in the genre and this book provides a fascinating insider's account of his process, both on the making of the film and the making of the grass roots campaign promoting it and the larger effort to push Wal-Mart to change its business practices. Top Marks - Highly Recommended!
The Wrong Book.......2005-12-18
Usually, when a book is published to coincide with the release of a documentary film, the book contains details and information that serve to flesh out the synoptic look that the documentary format provides. If you're looking for that sort of book here, I'm sorry, my friend. This is the wrong book.
Instead of looking at the information stored in the movie, this is a making-of document. It goes point-by-point through initial research and primary shooting up to about halfway through post-production. Also there are little pointers interspersed through the film on how to make politically motivated documentaries, in case the reader wants to be the Cecil B. DeMille of political harangues.
I'm sure there are people who are interested in the internal controversies that accompanied designing the poster for this film. I'm sure some people are interested on why one of the principal interviews, with a former Wal-Mart manager, takes place in a car and looks so incredibly cramped. But that's not why I bought this book, and that's probably not why you're considering it. This is E! True Hollywood Story stuff, not the content of a companion volume for a political diatribe.
Where this should be a book of hard facts that can be used in arguments against the continued invasion of the Wal-Martians, instead we get backlot gossip and pelf. Perhaps another book is in the offing in the near future, containing a more detailed look at the information in the movie. In the meantime, unless you hope to be a documentarian yourself, save your money. This isn't the book for which you're looking.
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SUPERIOR INSIGHT.......2004-07-08
We took this set of books and started to pass it around to our executives, then our managers after our execs approved with unanamous assent. All of our operational areas are touched with this one set of extraordinarily insightful loss prevention books. All found them very readable and filled from start to finish with viable ideas about eliminating loss from our company.
It needs to be said that this author is certainly a master at his craft, both writing and communication as well as loss prevention. The books are the very best we've ever seen, and the ROI was instantaneous and keeps on coming.
Not an operational area is left untouched. All loss is covered in detail,and every one of the recommendations just makes sense.
This is a great read. It will create thought and conversation, which is exactly why we made this now monumental purchase.
Thank you, Mr. Copeland, for sharing your expertise in such a professional manner!
Average Retail Loss Prevention Guide.......2004-05-01
I had high hopes when I was told about this material. The information is antiquated, repetative and over-priced. If any of you are interested I suggest you keep yours eyes on eBay and get it on clearance
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL!.......2004-04-23
Our retail business was looking for the best, most comprehensive loss prevention advice available, especially after last year's results. We definitely found what we were looking for in this excellent set.
All of our stores benefit through this one set...for our managers, security staff, and human resources. These books dramatically improved our loss prevention performance as well as our overall performance!
These books are easy to read professional publications that do what every one of us wants most...make total sense. I highly recommend this set for any store owner, and even our big box competitors. We're sold!
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HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATION OF THE AMERICAN RETAIL FEDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION; JUNE 5,6, 25,27, 28, JULY 9, 10, 1935.
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Internal theft: Investigation & control : an anthology
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Investigations In Retail
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$100 Billion!!! That's the loss suffered by retailers each and every year. Investigations In Retail goes to the heart of that horrendous loss and shows you the future of investigations in retail...corporate espionage...organized crime...gangs...theft rings...buyer-vendor schemes...hijacking...and so very much more! Interesting, exciting, intriguing, and amazing all describe the acts detailed in this fine retail loss prevention book. Investigations move from the very core of the store to the corporate office, distribution center, and massive external theft operations. It is all here in one outstanding book!
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Investigative Technique for the Retail Security Investigator
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Shoplifiting is the single largest crime impacting U.S. retail merchants with annual losses over $21 billion and with merchants spending hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it. To add insult to injury, individuals apprehended for shoplifting may sue stores for damages resulting from their apprehension and detention--and sometimes win. There is good news though. States have enacted merchant protection statutes and civil recovery laws which allow retailers to deal more effectively with the problem. Merchant protection statutes give retail merchants the right to apprehend and detain individuals suspected of shoplifting, while enjoying a conditional privilege of civil liability immunity; yet, despite the offer of civil liability immunity, merchants still lose civil suits with alarming regularity. To avoid losses, merchants must know and follow the specifics of their state's statutes to enjoy the immunity. Well-written with numerous real life experiences and sound advice, Budden's book will help retail store executives better understand shoplifting's enormous financial hazards to their businesses. Budden uses real life cases to show what executives and managers can and cannot do in their efforts to apprehend, detain, and prosecute shoplifters. They will also find up-to-date advice on using civil recovery laws and information about what is being done to make shoplifters pay for their crimes. Budden makes clear that to gain maximum benefit from both merchant protection statutes and civil recovery laws, retail store executives must understand how such legal measures work and how best to apply them to reduce "inventory shrinkage." These retail professionals will find Budden's book a useful guide for developing their own safe, workable protection plans.
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For the Private Investigator who serves or wants to serve!) the very lucrative business of retail, we have assembled the three best books available and put them into this trilogy set for you. Retailers suffer loss exceeding $100 billion each and every year. To stop this loss, they need Private Investigators nationwide to provide investigative services, loss prevention services, and knowledgeable consultation. The trilogy puts into your hands exceptional insight into this fabulous opportunity.
Private Investigation How To Be Successful!: This is your gateway into the real world of Private Investigation. You already know how to investigate...now learn the other 99% of the private investigation business. your own level of success depends upon this information...every single day! Yes, it is that important!
Absolutely Zero Loss: Retailers lose over $100 billion every year as a result of fraud, theft, and deceit. Simply stated, here is how you stop this prob! lem...cold...and completely. If consultation and investigation are in your plans, you absolutely positively need this book on your desk! before you step foot into a retail house to seek business (and $100 billion creates a lot of business!), read Absolutely Zero Loss!
Investigations In Retail: The foundation is now firmly in place! Welcome the the major league of investigation! Tomorrow is a heartbeat away...and here is tomorrow's business for the PI. These are the thefts you must know inside and out...the really devastating criminal acts...corporate espionage, buyer-vendor schemes, organized crime, theft rings, hijacking, computer fraud...and many more! read today what you will meet head on tomorrow!
Retailers can't wait...their loss is too significant. Enter the fight today, armed with superior knowledge!
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Enlightened Reading.......2001-01-13
This triology contains "Investigations in Retail, Absolutely Zero Loss, and Private Investigation How To Be Successful" Mr. Copeland writes in a very detailed and easy to understand method with just enough humor to keep the subject fresh. The information in these books is intriguing and points out many ways business is subject to loss. He also provides solutions to stop theft and other forms of loss. The knowledge he provides can help anyone from the small business owner to corporations of grand scale. If you are a private investigator these books give you a whole new customer base that can benefit from your services. I highly recomend these books to bussiness owners of all sizes and descriptions. Its your money that is walking out the door, learn how to defend against it.
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Shoplifting and Employee Theft Investigations: A Complete Handbook
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For additional materials, please contact the author directly: www.mariekedemooij.com
Cultural diversity influences marketing and advertising at all levels: consumer behaviour, research methodology, philosophies of how advertising works, advertising strategy, concept and execution. What the field has been lacking is a knowledge base of cultural differences and similarities, that can be used for developing global strategies. This book presents such a knowledge base, a structure to understand the consequences of culture for marketing and advertising.
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A unique perspective on consumer behaviour.......2001-05-30
The book is unique in that Marieke K Mooij uses theories from cultural anthroplogy and interpersonal communication to present a framework for consumer behaviour. It is particularly useful for practioners who are working in underresearched markets and are looking for ways to explain why consumers behave the way they do. The book makes extensive use of Hofstede's 5-D model to locate members of different cultures along the dimensions of culture and then uses this to explain differences in buying behaviour, communication styles and advertising appeals. The conclusion of the book is that individual behaviour is shaped more by the culture they belong to than it is by income or other differentiators. The one limitation of the book is that most of the examples are European, but I would recommend it even for those interested in Asian markets
no book is as useful for students and practitioners of adv........1999-02-15
This book review is on a 'titre personnel" basis.
I enjoyed the international advertising course which Marieke gave at Universidad de Navarra in 1997. As a teacher she is very capable of communicating the importance and urgency of this diverse and complex subject: managing marketing communications and brands within the outer/ and inner spheres of market cultures. Marieke applies the 5 dimensional model of G.Hofstede to illustrate and diferentiate a clear and full colour image of cultures and values. Being dutch myself, I recognise both the theory of Hofstede, but also the paradoxes Marieke has found. Intrigueing phenomena such as Japanese business success and collectivism, such as status and success in feminine cultures etc etc are often raising eyebrows, and not seldomly at highbrow corporate levels.
Cultural understanding, I have learnt, is possible only after understanding one's own culture, and a commitment to learn about the other culture, not matching it with your own. Marieke does this very well, she places anecdotes and case-studies is an objective setting, viewing it with an uncoloured microscope. She has added theory, academic research and good practice to make this book complete.
This book, for me, is one of the few great books on international (intercultural) marketing communications (and brand management).
For students and practitioners in cross-cultural communicati.......1998-09-01
From the author: With this book I have tried to develop a knowledge base of cultural differences and similarities that can be used for developing global marketing and advertising strategies and meaningful local adaptations. The structure for understanding the consequences of culture for marketing and advertising is based on Geert Hofstede's model for comparing national cultures. I have applied it to consumer values and motivations and found that it can explain culture's influence on marketing and advertising. To make the book useful for both students and practitioners, it includes a mix of basic theory and the practical applications with many examples.
Excerpts from a review by David A. Victor in The Journal of Business Communication of July 1998:
`Marieke de Mooij has added a worthwhile contribution to the on-going discourse in cross-cultural business communication in Global marketing and Advertising: Understanding Cultural Paradoxes. The title might dissuade those in fields outside marketing from reading further, which would be unfortunate. Any of us with an interest in cross-cultural business ought to find something worthwhile in de Mooij's book. De Mooij focuses on the various paradoxes of cross-cultural marketing. She amply illustrates how "certain opposing values of one culture also exist in other cultures, but in reverse" (p. 2). De Mooij calls these "Value paradoxes" and it is here that she makes her greatest contributions. [....] Throughout her discussion of Value Paradoxes, she breaks new ground. [.....] De Mooij has laid out an extremely well-balanced approach to understanding the competing needs of marketing globally while accommodating local advertising preferences.'
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The answer to the coffee question.......2007-07-22
Fair trade and organic coffee is seen by many as the solution to poverty among coffee farmers of the South, although these are excellent solutions for a group of coffee producers they leave out the vast majority of producers. Ponte and Daviron outline what other possible solutions are available to solve the problem. These solutions could ideally reach the majority of coffee producers. I would recomend this book to anyone interested in coffee and the quality of life of producers of the global South.
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The Optimistic Jew.......2007-08-31
Popular Futurism in the vein of Alvin Toffler, but even more journalistic and accessible. The title is the theme of the book as well as its own powerful metaphor of what is happening in the globalized world. His thesis is encapsulated in the subtitle of the book: "The Bigger the World Economy, The More Powerful Its Smallest Players". The ever-increasing speed of change provides ever smaller economic entities - businesses and countries - with greater opportunities given the flexibility inherent in being smaller. Pink talks about this in "Free Agent Nation". Naisbitt relates it to countries. It was this idea that inspired me (in my book "The Optimistic Jew") to think of Israel as a disproportionate (to its size) driving force in the world economy and to aspire to the highest median income in the world by 2030.
Post-Industrial Age of the micro-entrepreneur.......2007-05-11
Paradoxes surround us in the big/little, global/local, corporate/personal, and public/private contexts. You can find here insights for the emergence of the post-industrial global culture and economy. Because of the global integration, small businesses have even more hope of becoming successful in the future. Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
--A famous paradox in architecture that has served the profession well is "Less is more," meaning that the less you clutter a building with embellishments, the more elegant it can be, the greater a work of architecture it can be.
--The entrepreneur is also the most important player in the building of the global economy. So much so that big companies are decentralizing and reconstituting themselves as networks of entrepreneurs.
--The principle of the global paradox--the bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest players--applies especially to business. Huge companies like IBM, Philips, and GM must break up to become confederations of small, autonomous, entrepreneurial companies if they are to survive. Big companies and "economies of scale" succeeded in the comparatively slow-moving world of the four decades to the mid-1980s. But now, only small and medium-sized companies--or big companies that have restyled themselves as networks of entrepreneurs--will survive to be viable when we turn the corner o f the next century. Already 50 percent of U.S. exports are created by companies with 19 or fewer employees; the same is true of Germany. --Economies of scale are giving way to economies of scope, finding the right size for synergy, market flexibility, and above all, speed. ...What is going on in American corporations today is the "ODD effect" : outsourcing, de-layering, and deconstruction.
--In the years ahead all big companies will find it increasingly difficult to compete with--and in general will perform more poorly than--smaller, speedier, more innovative companies.
Create a niche brand for yourself, and win!
Individualism.......2007-02-26
1. The European Community will not adopt a common currency-not in this century and beyond-because our money, both paper and coin, which we imprint with national symbols and national heroes, is the one thing that distinguishes us from others.
2. World trends point overwhelmingly toward political independence and self rule and economic alliances
3. The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smaller players: virtual corporations, smaller the components, communication interconnection, global commerce, the demise of the nation-state, and self-rule of individuals are transforming corporations and countries. The entrepreneur will emerge as the powerhouse of global productivity. Over 50 percent of global GDP is produced by small entrepreneurs with less than 19 employees or fewer employees. The entrepreneur is the most important player in the building of the global economy.
4. Downsizing, reengineering, creating networking organizations, virtual corporation's results in dismantling bureaucracies to survive. Economies of scale are giving way to economies of scope, finding the right size for synergy, market flexibility, and not above all, speed. Jack Welch says, "What we are trying relentlessly to do is to get that small-company soul-and small company speed-inside our big company." With following results: employee reduction of 100,000 over 11 years to 268,000; sales have gone from $27 billion to $62 billion and income from $1.5 to $4.7 billion. "We are trying to get the small-company benefits of quickness in time to market, decision-making and the elimination of bureaucratic activities."
5. As the world integrates economically, the component parts are becoming more numerous and smaller and more important. The bigger and more open the world economy, the more small and middle size companies will dominate. The more choice, the more discrimination in choice, the more appetite for additional options and the more we integrate the more we differentiate.
6. Tribes have returned. Democracy greatly magnifies and multiples the assertiveness of tribes. Email is a tribe-maker. Electronics makes us more tribal at the same time it globalizes us. Think locally and act globally. In the future most armed conflict will be ethnically or tribally motivated, rather than politically or economically motivated.
7. Asians are learning to become affluent: Ferragamo-designed shirts, Rolex, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, BMW, Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior, Nia Ricci, Estee Lauder, Bruno Magli, Tiffiny, and Sony. Paris-based Cartier opened its first China outlet with annual sales of $1.5 billion. Vietnam's most popular band sings Bruce Springsteen songs. At any time the top 10 films in any major city in the world are American made; the American movie industry has $4 billion trade balance, and earns more than 40 percent of its revenues from abroad.
8. China has 56 different nationalities and five of China's 30 provinces are autonomous.
9. Kenichi Ohmae has proposed breaking up homogeneous Japan into nine or ten autonomous regions. Ichiro Ozawa advocates breaking Japan into 300 autonomous regions, "Plans to rebuild Japan"
10. Computers allow us to organize and keep track of complexity, the complexity of having many small units-for companies and for the world. The breakup of countries into national or tribal entities is surely as beneficial as breakup of companies. It eliminates duplication and waste, reduces bureaucracy and promotes motivation and accountability, and results in self-rule. If the world is going to be a single-market world, the parts have to be smaller. The shift will be from 200 to 600 countries to million hosts of networks that are all tied together.
11. The 88 republics and regions in Russia are semi-autonomous.
12. Many people of the new tribalism want self-rule. The nation-state is dead. The revolution in telecommunication move towards self-rule. Modern telecommunication encourages extraordinary cooperation among people, companies, and countries. The world today is about the individual and not the state. Companies that endure over the next few decades will exist to meet the communications needs of individuals.
13. Individuals decide the value of currency. Approximately 22,000 currency trader determine relative value of their countries currency and buy and sell millions of dollars with their clients money and their money.
14. 2001 there were 1.5 billion internet users in the world.
15. Politics will reemerge as the engine of individualism.
16. People are less afraid to travel; many have been unable to travel because of oppressive government and with their new found freedom, they want to travel; in the US the population of people over 55 will rise from 21 to 27 percent by 2010 and their impact on travel will be greater than their numbers; this group will be well-educated and well traveled and relatively prosperious and will be looking for greater travel experiences.
17. Between 1985 and 1990, travel from America to Europe grew by 25 percent. By 1985, 27 percent of American travelers had traveled to more than three European countries.
18. In 1992, an estimated 1.5 million Americans spent close to $100 million to plunge from an extended crane or bridge overhang only to bounce back up in the air. Adventure travels has increased. "Many people feel their lives are out of control, and they turn to recreation because it something they can exert control over. Their recreation choices are a way for them to make statements about who they are. If a person is underemployed and bored on the job, he or she may have a greater tendency to engage in reckless activities as a way to compensate for what they are not achieving professionally." "There is increasing demand for tourism in which visitors are permitted to observe and participate in local events and life-styles in a non artificial manner" (Ectotourism).
19. People throughout the world want the Americanized experience, they want the image of being American, and they want the recreation brands made by Americans.
20. In 1991, tourism earned developing countries $312 billion in foreign currency. Americans want to visit Russia, China, India and eventually Iraq and Iran.
21. One in six jobs in the Caribbean is related to travel and tourism, 15.8 percent of all jobs. By 1994, the WTTC reports that travel and tourism is expected to reach 24.5 percent to the economies of the Caribbean.
22. The cruise industry into the US sector has experienced increases in both passengers and number of sales. The fastest growing sector is for passengers between the age of 25 to 40. Families with children booked 28 percent of all cruise vacations. The Caribbean remains the most popular cruise and Mexico and Alaska run as second. By the year 2000, 10 million people will cruise annually. There are 160 ships that represent the world's cruise fleet.
23. In Australia, where tourism accounts for 12.5 percent of the countries employment, 987,000 workers and $11.6 billion in tax revenues rapid development of roads is under construction.
24. We now face new era of greatly increased international communications, more freedom to travel, more international trade, and more investing across international borders. "Suddenly, there are 430 million, mostly well-educated citizens of Eastern Europe and old Soviet Union, who are now free to travel after having been locked up from more than 50 years."
25. The switch from centralized economies to free-market economies in China and India will be big, these economies account for 38 percent of the world's population. The removal of border controls between the 12 nations of the European Community; the creation of the world's largest free-trade area of Canada, Mexico, and the United States encompasses 370 million consumers having a total output of $7 trillion. Travel is now considered a basic human right.
26. Between 1978 and 1992, the yuan feel from 1.7 to the dollar to 5.5 to the dollar.
27. By using PPP, the IMF found China had produced $1.7 trillion in goods and services.
28. China boasts a million millionaires, almost all of whom come from the ranks of its 18 million entrepreneurs. China's goal is to grow 10 percent a year for the rest of the century, doubling every seven years. China's foreign trade grew to around $170 billion by 1992. In the first six years of economic reform, China raised half out of poverty.
29. In 1978, China, approximately 700 products passed through the central planning system. By 1991, the number had dropped to 20. By 1992, the market distributed almost 60 percent of coal, 55 percent of steel, and 90 percent of cement. In 1992, the government approved the establishment of 47,000 new enterprises based on foreign investment, investing $57.5 billion.
30. China wants to have 100 million telephone lines by 2000. China 1986-1990 wants increase power capacity by 35,000 megawatts. America Express has 3,000 establishments in 130 cities and the amount charged has been increasing by an average of 40 percent a year since 1988.
31. Foreign investors start with a small investment, learn the market, develop relationships with Chinese partners, let each experience make them a little stronger.
Sure, this book is no thriller, but..........2006-03-22
Narrative is indeed the most salient feature of this book, and apparently there is nothing too exciting about it-- in any rate, that was the my impression when I first read it some ten years ago.
This time, it really amazed me: the predictions made some ten years ago are so correct, particularly the part concerning Asia and China where I live. Furthermore, when the author quoted, he epitomized.... I don't know much about Futurism, but I am not sure if analysis or theories could contribute much in a book of this nature. Anyway, had I paid better attention to this book, I could have an extra edge in my investment portfolio particularly in Greater China... And so, I will waste no time in checking out his other books.
Author Sadly Seeking Gravitas.......2001-09-30
Naisbitt has happened upon an important topic which could have been explored by a stronger intellect to make an important contribution to academics, policy makers, and managers understanding the emerging world structure. Unfortunately, Naisbitt lacks the intellectual firepower and personal gravitas to pull it off. As a previous reviewers suggests, he substitutes trite anecdotes in place of even the simplist forms of empiricism. His thinking is simplistic and demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of the true complexity of globalization, the working of international trade, and the development of intellectual property. This work is 'People' magazine journalism trying unsuccessfully to masquerade as public intellectualism. Obviously, I am advising against reading this book if your interest in the future of globalization is at all serious.
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Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women's participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature.
Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women's activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and "unfinished" cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women's community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist "issue networks" in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.
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Contemporary foreign policy is increasingly perceived to be about values rather than interests as traditionally conceived. Once marginal, ethics are today held to play a central role in foreign policy.
This new book goes beyond current debates which locate the limitations to ethical foreign policy in the strategic and economic interests of nation-states. Rather than counter-posing interests and ethics, trying to find "hidden agendas," or emphasizing the double-standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this text brings together leading international theorists in order to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and to analyze the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. The book comprises of three clear sections that explore: theoretical issues, techniques and tactics of ethical intervention and the geography/ space of ethical intervention. The authors deal with the limits of "ethical foreign policy" both in the light of the internal dynamic of these policiesthemselves and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world.
Presenting a range of theoretical approaches to the study of ethical foreign policy in the US, UK and Europe, this topical book will be of strong interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Politics, Law and Philosophy.
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Global Networks And Local Linkages: The Paradox of Cluster Development in an Open Economy (Innovation Systems Research)
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Interesting .......2007-01-09
This book provides and in-depth understanding of the different clusters and policies in Canada. I found it interesting and inlightning.
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Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Economy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players
John Naisbitt
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Company
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Global Security Paradoxes 2000-2002
Major General Vinod Saighal
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