international economic integration

Explores the European Union, including how it works, Europe's economy, and more.

This documentary explores the issues of poverty and microcredit as it features interviews with numerous recipients of small loans (generally under $100) in locales throughout the world. Most of these recipients are women who are unable to secure a traditional loan. Most borrowers are able to pay back their loans, and have enough profit to reinvest in their businesses, their homes, and their children.

"Covers the economic devastation wrought by World War II, the institutions that the Allies created to help nations recover from the war, and how the Cold War bled into the economic arena. Consumerism and the emergence of the middle class in Western countries is also a major theme, as are the challenges and promises created by the expansion of free trade and the collapsing of national economic boundaries"--Amazon.com.

Former World Bank chief economist Joseph E. Stiglitz expresses his disillusionment with international institutions and Washington policy makers regarding the global economy, discussing the plight of poor nations, the East Asia crisis, and the former Soviet economies.

Explores international economic integration, globalization, and free trade in the United States and abroad; and provides related primary source documents and research tools.

Presents a brief introduction to the concept of globalization, looking at its economic, political, cultural, technological, and ecological dimensions.

In this sequel to "Daemon," Daemon is close to controlling the world and civil war erupts in the American Midwest. Pete Sebeck, Daemon operative, leads a group of people in a populist attempt to protect the new world order. NSA agent Natalie Philips, hacker Jon Ross, and darknet master Loki are caught up in democracy's last stand.

When the obituary of computer game designer Matthew Sobol is posted online, it activates a previously dormant autonomous computer program known as a "daemon." As the daemon unleashes its capabilities and begins to destroy the interconnected order of the modern technological world, a special task force is created to locate and destroy this faceless threat before it creates an entirely new world order.