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    The Shortest History of Migration

    Ian Goldin

    From our earliest wanderings within and out of Africa and the earth-shattering repercussions of the Age of Exploration to the building of the US-Mexico border wall, here is a succinct…

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    The Shortest History of Migration

    Ian Goldin

    For millennia the ability - and willingness - of humans to move over vast distances has allowed us to escape existential threats and thrive as a species. In trying to…

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    Age of the City

    Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin

    An in-depth look at the major challenges facing humanity today and why the city - the ultimate symbol of human ingenuity - is where these battles will be won or…

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    Is the Planet Full?

    Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world’s population by the middle of this century? This book explores the contexts, costs, and…

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    Is the Planet Full?

    Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world’s population by the middle of this century? This book explores the contexts, costs, and…

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    Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World

    Ian Goldin

    An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.

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    Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World

    Ian Goldin

    An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.

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    Economic Reform, Trade and Agricultural Development

    However, these macroeconomic reforms are a necessary but not sufficient condition for growth: reforms in the productive sectors of the economy - agriculture, industry and services - are required to…

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    Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years

    Ian Goldin,Robert Muggah

    Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian and Robert chart humanity’s impact on the planet, and the ways in…

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    The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

    Ian Goldin,Mike Mariathasan

    Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. Drawing on insights from a wide variety of disciplines, the…

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    The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

    Ian Goldin,Mike Mariathasan

    The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential…

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    Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance (Revised Edition)

    Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna

    Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the…

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    Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    Ian Goldin (Professor, Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford)

    The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in the radically different world of the 1940s. It is becoming increasingly apparent that our global structures are struggling to…

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    Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    Ian Goldin (Professor, Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford)

    The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in the radically different world of the 1940s. It is becoming increasingly apparent that our global structures are struggling to…

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    Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture

    The interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural sector reforms is of vital importance to developing and East European economies. The papers in this volume adopt an open economy perspective to reform…

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    The Economics of Sustainable Development

    This volume focuses on the issue of sustainability, examining the implications for orthodox economic theory, of explicitly considering resource depletion, pollution abatement and sustainability. New insights are provided by injecting…

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    Age of the City

    Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin

    Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.

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    Age of the City

    Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin

    An in-depth look at the major challenges facing humanity today and why the city - the ultimate symbol of human ingenuity - is where these battles will be won or…

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    GLOBALIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT, REVISED EDITION: TRADE, FINANCE, AID, MIGRATION, AND POLICY

    Ian A. Goldin,Kenneth A. Reinert

    Identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. This book defines the historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas…

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    The Pursuit of Development: Economic Growth, Social Change, and Ideas

    Ian Goldin (Director, Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford)

    In this book Ian Goldin shows how the understanding of how nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has changed as the pendulum has swung from arguments for…

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    Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

    Ian Goldin,Geoffrey Cameron,Meera Balarajan

    Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. This title looks…

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    Development: A Very Short Introduction

    Ian Goldin (Senior Fellow, Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford)

    o How do nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress? Ian Goldin, a former vice-president of the World Bank, explains what development means in its broadest sense -…

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    World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities

    Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.

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    Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges

    Ian Goldin (Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Martin School; and Professorial Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford),Kenneth Reinert (Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University)

    The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to economic development.

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    Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges

    Ian Goldin (Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Martin School; and Professorial Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford),Kenneth Reinert (Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University)

    The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to economic development.

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