Trades & Tariffs

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it....

America is the first country in history to fund the rise of its rivals. We need to stop now, before it’s too late....

This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire....

What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? Find out....

Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord ....

Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology....

Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period....

An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people....

The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....

Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower....

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another....

In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naim illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them....

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years....

This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing....

Laffer and Moore follow the rousing success of The End of Prosperity with a book even more vital to America and Americans....

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships....

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China's growing power poses and how it must be confronted....

Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse....

Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, and police officers, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the US in surprising ways - the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology we enjoy....

Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei’s reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei and how he built a sprawling corporate empire—one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting.

Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia....

China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi's flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend more than one trillion dollars for new ports, railways, fiber-optic cables, power plants....

In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and best-selling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States' unmatched financial and technological potential....

Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the 21st century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to 10 trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications....