and
the Development Research Group
invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
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| | Bound Together: |
| | How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, |
| | and Warriors Shaped Globalization |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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"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.
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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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