International Bestseller"Quite simply the best guide to the global economy today." —Fareed ZakariaShaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons...

In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, char...

Humans are great at making short-term, self-interested choices. We're less skilled at making long-term decisions with the greater good in mind. This isn't just an interesting quirk of human nature—it's a fundamental flaw that threat...

In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book—now revised and updated for the new century—Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China\'s crisis-ridden pres...

The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimperAfter years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidenc...