invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
Bound Together:
How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
Nayan Chanda
In this book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers,
adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped
the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing
interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and
continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.
In the end, globalization is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions
that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or
possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering
across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological
forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking
discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world.
"Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a
panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and entertaining anecdotes, it
is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are
today."
Joseph E.
Stiglitz
Nobel laureate
in economics
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Thursday, June 7 2007 at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
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Introduced by
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in World Bank Research Department, unit
dealing with poverty, income distribution and household surveys; senior
associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; adjunct
professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University and University of Maryland. Mr. Milanovic writes on methodology and
empirics of inequality; poverty and social policy in transition economies, and
globalization and inequality. His recent publications include Income and
Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (co-authored with Ethan
Kapstein), Upjohn 2003; ?True world income distribution 1988 and 1993: first
calculations based on household surveys alone?, Economic Journal, 2002; and
Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market
Economy, World Bank, 1998. His new book Worlds Apart: Measuring Internationl
and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press came out in 2005.
Moderated by
Bruce Stokes
International Economics Columnist, National Journal
Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for the National Journal,
a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is coauthor of the recent book
America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. A
former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Stokes is
currently a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In 1997, he was a
member of President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and
Investment Policy. He is also author of the book Open for Business: Creating a
Transatlantic Marketplace. In 2004, he was chosen by International Economy
magazine as one of the most influential China watchers in the American press.
In 1995, he was picked by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Best on
Business" reporters in Washington.
Presented by Author
Nayan Chanda
Director of Publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the
Editor of YaleGlobal Online
Nayan Chanda was associated with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern
Economic Review as its reporter, diplomatic correspondent and editor. In
1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street
Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The
War After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics,
security and foreign policy. His most recent book is Bound Together: How
Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. He is
Co-editor with Strobe Talbott The Age of Terror: America and the World After
September 11, and Co-editor with Bruce Mazlish and Kenneth Weisbrode, The
Paradox of a Global USA. Mr. Chanda is the winner of the 2005 Shorenstein Award
for Journalism presented not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for
the particular way it has helped an American audience understand the
complexities of Asia.
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