GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY MADE SIMPLE, UNDERSTANDABLE AND FASCINATING. Lean how the ideas of the world's greatest economic thinkers help explain the global political economy today. Explore the ideas of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Malthus, Herbert Spencer, the Utopian Socialists, Marx, the Austrian School, Keynes, Kalecki, Pareto, Veblen, Marcuse, the Dependency Theorists, the Chicago School and the Virginia School, Rational Choice Theory, and New Political Economy. Understand the dynamics of global economic growth, trade, money, finance, MNC's, the BRICS, the precariat,...

Born in the small town of Princeton, Missouri, Black Sheep grows up working on the old family farm. His repressive religious upbringing sinks him under a load of sin and guilt. This marks the prevailing idiocy of rural life. His liberation begins with his escape to the state University. Enlightened as a child of the sixties generation, he avoids the Vietnam War by joining the Peace Corps. He goes to India where he meets his future wife. After a taste of foreign travel and adventure, he finds the Midwest too boring. He joins the Navy for several years sailing to European ports. Returning to...

Earnest Seeker is sinking into boredom teaching high school in a small Midwestern town. He yearns for adventure in the wider world. He joins the Navy and escapes to California. San Diego is glorious but the good life ends when he is stationed on a destroyer. His ship in Greece returns to the Navy yard in Philadelphia. Increasingly alienated from military life, Earnest seeks life's deeper meaning in Eastern philosophies. Seen to be a bad influence on his shipmates, he is threatened with violence. He takes to the road to allow his mind to recoil from the deadly grind of military life. In his...

With his doctorate under his belt, Ted Grover is eager for adventure and a challenge in academia. A child of the sixties generation, he has visions of radically changing the world for the better. When he lands a job in a university in the Mississippi Delta he leaves his family behind in California. He is quickly mugged by reality when he realizes that here the savage ideal still thrives. He lectures his students about human liberation but they only want to know if he believes in God and whether he is a communist. The air saturated with cotton chemicals make his lungs burn. As an outsider he...

An adventurous American academic travels to North Cyprus to teach at a new university. He has no idea what it will be like living and working in a country which has no official international recognition except by Turkey. All mail must be addressed to "Mersin-10, Turkey, to reach the north side of the Island. There is no internet or email. It is a lonesome existence and the mostly Turkish students are not prepared to study in English. It is a hard struggle and discouraging when the electrical power breaks down for several months. The Cyprus Problem is perpetually discussed with seemingly no...

After years in graduate school cranking out his doctorate, Stan Sucker bucks the tight market for a job in academia. When he finally lands a one-year post in the deep South, he hits the ground running, spending all his time preparing his lectures. He is distracted when he is seduced by an older married woman and then falls for a cute young coed in one of his classes. He labors under the illusion that higher education is all about seeking truth and enlightening others. Appearing at an anti-war rally he is branded as the campus red. Shunned by his colleagues, who are safely into football and...

The McDonaldization of education is making great strides as private degree-mill universities pop up like poisonous mushrooms all over the small island of Chaos. When Professor Jed Singer's dean uses a clever trick to get his professorship cancelled and deny him a contract, Singer is forced to seek a position in Chaos. Singer finds Midas Celestial University closer to Folsom Prison than to a real university. He is virtually chained to his desk in the Business Model time-punch factory system. The university is run by a CEO who wields the whip over the faculty forcing them to teach a double load...

The only novel ever written about the American Peace Corps experience in rural Punjab, with penetrating insight into Punjab Village, India, often using satirical humor. The author vividly reveals the secrets of society in a rural Indian village. For James Weldon, it is either Vietnam as a soldier in the US Army or the Peace Corps. Threatened, not by communists, but by the military draft, he fights for a deferment and goes to India in the Peace Corps for a food production project in the late nineteen sixties. When the American Sahib arrives, the Indians find it difficult to take him seriously,...