• Harry Blutstein is a freelance journalist and author. He blogs on an eclectic range of topics and tries to make sense of the “booming, buzzing, confusion” of globalization. Posts include current events, book reviews and items that delve into the history of globalization.

    Quote of the month ……………….. "A frontier is both the inside and the outside. And for there to really be an inside, it must open itself to the outside and embrace it” - Jean-Pierre Vernant

    Check this out ……………….. Great article on the lies Rupert Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry - http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/all-the-truth-that-fits/216/

    Event Notice ……………….. Harry Blutstein will be lecturing to the University of the Third Age for six weeks starting 27 July 2012.

    Status report .................... Harry Blutstein is currently working on his book "The New Globalists", which should be finished in June.

Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review – Coming of Age in a Globalized World by Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna
Book Reviews

Book Review – Coming of Age in a Globalized World by Michael Adams and Angelo Carfagna

This book is a useful primer for the next generation of globalists.

Book Review – Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar
Book Reviews

Book Review – Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar

This is a readable account of the lives and ideas of some of the major economists from the previous 200 years.

Book Review – The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith
Book Reviews

Book Review – The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alistair Smith

This is a truly frightening book that shows how easy it is to manipulate power, even in democracies.

Book Review – The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer
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Book Review – The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer exposes the threat to free markets from state capitalism.

Book Review – The Fear Index by Robert Harris
Book Reviews

Book Review – The Fear Index by Robert Harris

Robert Harris’s new thriller is not only a good read but makes some acute observations about hedge funds.

Book Review – Time to Change Corporations by Robert C Hinkley
Book Reviews

Book Review – Time to Change Corporations by Robert C Hinkley

Robert Hinkley book provides ways to radically reform corporate law.

Book Review – Extreme Money by Satyajit Das
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Book Review – Extreme Money by Satyajit Das

Extreme Money is an excellent read, and provides a compelling picture of why the global economy went into meltdown.

Book Review – The Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick
Book Reviews

Book Review – The Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick

Looking back over the last forty years, Madrick examines how greed contributed to the global financial crisis.

Book Review – Boomerang by Michael Lewis
Book Reviews

Book Review – Boomerang by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis takes readers through a frightening tour of the evolving financial crisis in Europe and the US.

Book Review – The Financial Crisis
Book Reviews

Book Review – The Financial Crisis

Howard Davies critical reviews the causes of the global financial crisis.

Book Review – This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
Book Reviews

Book Review – This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

In this history of financial crises the authors show that the same mistakes are being made.