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What Everyone Needs to Know about China and Burma

Posted By Zócalo On April 21, 2010

China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
by David I. Steinberg

The New Cyber Crime Lords

Posted By Zócalo On April 21, 2010

Joseph Menn’s Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet travels through the underworld of cybercrime and finds — beyond the pseudonymous hackers, mob kingpins, and devoted investigators — state police forces that look the other way, dangerous cracks in the global system of online commerce, and the first signs of major geopolitical conflict. Below, Menn, Financial Times Technology Correspondent, adapts from his book the story of two investigators going after the elusive crime lord called King Arthur.

Steven Solomon

Posted By Zócalo On April 20, 2010

Steven Solomon, before he wrote Water, was author of The Confidence Game, which explained how world leaders make international economic policy. What unites his two subjects? “Liquidity,” he joked. “Which isn’t much.” Below, Solomon reveals more about himself.

Why Water is the New Oil

Posted By Zócalo On April 19, 2010

Steven Solomon had a simple answer to why water beats oil for world’s most precious resource.

“You can’t drink oil, and you can’t grow food with it,” he said to the standing-room-only crowd at the RAND Corporation.

Simon Johnson

Posted By Zócalo On April 19, 2010

Simon Johnson came to MIT for grad school and never left. A professor of entrepreneurship, Johnson initially thought that he would study history, math, or physics. “Somebody told me, and I internalized, that there is no money in history,” he said. “I learned that economics has a combination of historical narrative, math, and physics. I was well advised.” Below, Johnson, co-author of 13 Bankers, tells us more about himself.

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How One Family Created Chinese America

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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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