Book Recommendations

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I realize this is cheating a little bit, and I won't be surprised if I get negative comments/none at all, but! I've got two papers to write, and need some book/article recommendations that are interesting to read and informative.

My first paper is, assuming my proposal is approved - going to be anti-free trade/multinational corporations/globalization. I wouldn't mind reading some pro- books either to better build my argument.

My second is on Canadian Foreign Policy, in particular peacekeeping.

Hoping to get some help?


And I suppose it's only fair if I give some of my own for anyone who wants some pleasure reading:
Free Market Madness by Peter A. Ubel is informative, and really quite funny in some parts, even mentioning The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and The Simpsons. He brings in interesting stories. The one problem I had with this book, which I wouldn't've had if I hadn't picked it up hoping it would help more with my paper is that it focussed mostly on health concerns with a free market system, which I should have expected as the author is a physician. My other problem was I couldn't put the fucking thing down which bothered me right until I finished it because I would have really liked to start reading books that would help my paper more.

The second, that I'm reading now and aren't very far into right now so I can't say much about, is The Corporation by Joel Bakan. It seems good thus far though, so I may as well drop the name now.

[x togepi x]

pro free trade- you basically have to read the world is flat by thomas freidman

anti-free trade: no logo, fences and windows, and the shock doctrine by nami klein

[paper halo]

I second No Logo by Naomi Klein.

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The second, that I'm reading now and aren't very far into right now so I can't say much about, is The Corporation by Joel Bakan. It seems good thus far though, so I may as well drop the name now.

I have that book somewhere but I've never got around to reading it, let me know what it's like.

[Skadrist]

Didn't she write Disaster Capitalism?

[x togepi x]

it's the same book as the shock doctrine. the full title is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

[Skadrist]

Thanks for clarifying I remember looking at the book on Amazon; couldn't remember the title though.

[sweet tragedy]

pro free trade- you basically have to read the world is flat by thomas freidman

anti-free trade: no logo, fences and windows, and the shock doctrine by nami klein

And The Lexus & The Olive Tree by him for globalization.

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And The Lexus & The Olive Tree by him for globalization.

I always thought The World is Flat took the arguments in that book and updated them, but i could be wrong. I never read The Lexus and the Olive Tree, just TWiF.

[sweet tragedy]

I always thought The World is Flat took the arguments in that book and updated them, but i could be wrong. I never read The Lexus and the Olive Tree, just TWiF.

You're right, I mixed up when they got published. I always think The Lexus.. came after TWiF because he keeps updating TWiF.

[Liter-O-Cola]

I always thought The World is Flat took the arguments in that book and updated them, but i could be wrong. I never read The Lexus and the Olive Tree, just TWiF.

The Lexus and the Olive Tree details what Friedman labels "Globalization 2.0" and deals mainly with multinational corporations and their relation to the global world. That period ends around the year 2000 (I think Lexus and the Olive Tree was written in 1999?). The World is Flat is all about what Friedman considers "Globalization 3.0" which is a completely new idea based on the individual's relation to the global world (this starts in 2000 and has been growing ever since). It is an expansion on the Lexus... in the sense that it is the next movement in globalization but many of the ideas are completely new to post-2000.