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The distribution of the world’s material wealth is far from even. And while most of the western world may be accustomed to a commercial culture, there are other cultures (e.g., Amish, Islamic, peasant) that are not commercial or are uncomfortable with commercial definition. Because cultural meaning is not universally defined through the market, "globalization," as it is currently understood, is not necessarily a universal aspiration.
Why then, is there so much talk of globalization? In this
Third Edition of
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael provides a narrative of how development came to be institutionalized as an international project, pursued by individual nation-states in the post-colonial era. This new edition has been updated and revised to incorporate the treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis, and the commercialization of services via the World Trade Organization.
The evident failure of many countries to fulfill this promise of development and the world’s growing awareness of environmental limits have forced a reevaluation of the development enterprise.
Development and Social Change traces the changing fortunes of development efforts, the shortcomings of which have produced two responses. One is to advocate a thoroughly global market to expand trade and spread the wealth. The other is to reevaluate the economic emphasis and to recover a sense of cultural community.
Features of this book:
- A world-historical perspective that situates globalization in the declining fortunes of the postwar development project.
- A political perspective that views development and globalization as practices managed by historic elite groupings, as mechanisms of power and world ordering.
- An emphasis on resistance and social movements as actors shaping the meaning and direction of both development and globalization, as they impact societies around the world.
- A series of case studies that allow in-depth examination of development/globalization dilemmas and paradoxes.
Development and Social Change is the first book to present students with a coherent explanation of how "globalization" took root in the public discourse and how "globalization" represents a shift away from development as a way to think about non-western societies. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying globalization, social development, and social change in Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and International Studies.
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Fair trade and social change for just under 50$ a copy!.......2007-09-07
McMichaels book on globalization is a collection of gross overstatements, dubious statistics and figures (nearly always mentioned without citations) and embarrassing generalizations, poor writing and an absence of wit or even insight. Possibly one of the worst things I've ever been assigned to read- so bad in fact, I was inspired to write my first ever online review. That said, global economics and the structural orchestration of inequality associated with today's neoliberal economic development is a fascinating topic, certainly deserving of our attention. With some organization, a writing class or two, a solid editor, and maybe a class in academic research methods, McMichael may yet have a future in Academia. In the mean time, skip this one and find something else (Harvey) more worthwhile.
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Not a bad introduction, but there are better.......2006-02-14
This book is an introduction to the social analysis of the development project. If amazon gave the option, I would rate it 3 1/2 stars instead. The book gives a brief history of international development and the analysis focuses on overarching themes, such as decolonization, the shift from keynesian to neoliberal models, and disharmonies. Case studies are interspersed throughout to give examples. The book is light on economics and even lighter on theory. It is accessible to anyone with the most basic of understandings in trade. The reason I give the book 3 stars is because the first 2 parts, or 200 pages or so, of the book contribute very little original material or insights, and lack in depth. Unless you do well from a textbook format, I would recommend a separate historical text on development combined with a socio-cultural analysis. The two are not combined well in this work in my opinion. That said, for someone new to sociology of development this is a good starting point.
One interesting and valuable approach is that he attempts to seed the narrative with the question of "whether and to what extent development is a process often realized through the intensification of inequalities, despite its stated intentions." This should tell you something about the subtle political leanings of the author, which did not distract from the goals of providing students with foundational knowledge in international development.
Fabulous!.......2001-07-03
Usually professors who assign their own book for a class tend to be egotists. McMichael bucked that trend, however, by assigning his book which explained everything I ever needed or wanted to know about how the world works. The structure of the book makes it easy for anyone to understand and explains the state of the world today using historical context, which I found fascinating. However cheesy this may be, I honestly think the world would be a better place if more people read this book.
An excellent place to start.......2000-11-19
I completely agree with Mr. Jones' review. I can name countless books that offer strong arguments and good research. I can also recommend many books that are written with such clear and graceful style that they are a pleasure to read. McMichael is one of the few authors who can manage to combine these two aspects. I thank him for making it both easy and interesting for me to learn about this field of study.
Beyond modernization and underdevelopment.......1997-11-27
McMichael avoids the classic pitfall of falsely dichotomizing his development themes into modernization and/or underdevelopment theory. Nor does he leave us in the postmodern paralysis of absolute relativity. His straightforward and readable style reveals the entire postwar development project and its consequences, as well as the rise of the globalization project now under way. McMichael underscores his points with case studies and acutely observes the cultural phenomena and localized resistance of our times. Development and Social Change brings the sociology of development to the edge of modernity and the end of our century, in a vocabulary and style open to laypersons and sociologists alike.
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Although women often bear the heaviest burden under structural adjustment in Third World countries, there is considerable evidence of women being empowered through their responses to the challenges of economic restructuring. Based on case study material from around the world, this volume explores the significant contributions women make to the wealth and well-being of their families and nations, arguing that women may hold the key to sustainable development. Embodying the new "gender and development" paradigm, the book reports on research at the frontiers of knowledge and theory about the gendered outcomes of economic transformation, restructuring, and social change.
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Here, in a new step-by-step contemporary framework, is a comprehensive way to analyze business strategy, assess accounting policies and estimates, evaluate financial performance, and forecast the firm's value. A variety of real-world decision contexts helps the reader understand how the framework actually works in the areas of securities analysis, credit analysis, merger and acquisition analysis, corporate financing policies analysis, and management communication analysis.
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Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation 2/e focuses on the output of financial statements, not the input. As such, the book asks what financial statements tell you, not how they are prepared. The idea is to get students to see accounting "working." The book focuses on using financial statements in valuation. The text takes the approach that the best way to accurately value a firm is to look at the future earnings of the firm. The main pretext of the book is that financial statement analysis and valuation analysis are inextricably entwined: valuation is an exercise in financial statement analysis. Financial statement analysis is directed by the need to get information for valuation. Accordingly, the book brings finance and accounting concepts together. The book stresses concepts, but the idea is to show how to move from concepts to practice.
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Heir to the Throne.......2006-06-23
For decades Graham and Dodd's "Security Analysis" has been the Bible of Value Investing. But now Stephen Penman, Columbia professor who teaches what Graham did, stakes his claim as a truly worthy successor, with this textbook.
I felt a profound expansion of my understanding of fundamental analysis when I read Security Analysis. Penman's textbook is the only other book that has provided me with a similar deepening of my understanding. Indeed, if Graham were still around, I am quite sure this is the book he would have written.
If you seek a strong foundation and understanding of how accounting information and valuation work together, there is no better book i have come across. All the other texts seem to pale in comparison.
Here's a small extract:
"A valuation model not only tells you how to think about the value generation in the future, but it also tells you how to account for the value generation. A valuation model is really a model of proforma accounting for the future. Should you account for the future in terms of dividends? should you account for the future in terms of cash flows? Or should you use accrual accounting for the future? You see, then, that accounting and valuation are very much alike. Valuation is a matter of accounting for value."
Statements like these will give a dedicated value investor a high. If you are one, make sure u read this book!
Best Fundamental Analysis Textbook .......2004-09-20
I must first disclose that I am a student in Professor Penman's class at Columbia, therefore I may have some insights and access to items that other readers may not have. Nonetheless, this textbook is amazing! I am in my last 2 electives before graduating from a dual MBA program at Columbia/LBS, and this textbook and class are "pulling everything together." I have taken 5 finance courses and 3 accounting classes and thus, have a pretty good background in finance/accounting, despite being a physician with no practical experience in the financial services industry (yet).
THE BOOK: What I have found different about this text book and every other finance/valuation textbook I have used in my studies including Brealey and Myers (the finance bible)is that it handles both the broad, conceptual aspects and the nuts-and-bolts valuation tools extremely well. Penman is able to start with a broad concept and then introduce valuation tools/techniques that build on these concepts. This makes it easier to understand and remember the valuation process (at least for me). The graphs and diagrams are equally helpful (for a change) and re-enforce the textual information. In contrast, the McKinsey valuation textbook (bible #2) is good on the conceptual aspects, but lacks tremendously in the detailed analysis sections. The additional workbook for the McKinsey book fails miserably as well. This textbook has it all, and provides an excellent framework and tool set to enter the financial services industry.
Easily the best book in the field..........2004-08-23
Penman's book is rapidly becoming THE textbook for MBA courses in fundamental analysis and equity valuation, and rightly so. The approach he suggests just plain makes good economic sense, and he is able to offer a method that allows the users of financial statements to get to the core of how economic profits are created, and perhaps most importantly, how those profits should be valued.
In the end, of course, no one has all of the answers -- a major weakness in the book, in my opinion, is a less-than-complete discussion of the issues surrounding the determination of the elusive "cost of operations". He rather vaguely suggests the application of a basic statistical method that I won't go into here (read the book and see what you think!), but the discussion is a little thin and will hopefully be beefed up in future editions. But, hey, like I said: no one has really cracked the case on this perennial grey area, and Penman's ideas are as good as any I've encountered.
Again, though, this book provides the reader with some rather powerful tools with which to tackle financial statements. My only regret is that I bought the softcover international edition to save some cash -- I can honestly say that this is the only textbook I've ever purchased where I wished I had picked up the hardcover edition. Don't make the same mistake. This is a text you will want to refer to time and time again, so just go ahead and buy the real, hardcover deal. I know I'll be picking up my own hardcover copy once the next edition is released.
Professor Penman, if you happen to read the reviews here, thanks for the effort and please keep striving to improve on this landmark text!!
A Banking Professional.......2004-07-13
Very much thorough and practical point of view. Awesome! An art piece of integrating in-depth accounting and valuation!
Excellent!.......2003-08-22
I've studied innumerable books on Security Analysis, but have yet to find one that satisfied my desire to fully integrate financial statement analysis with valuation--until now! Penman's book does an excellent job of presenting all the various valuation methods and critiquing the strengths and weaknesses of each one. He does a superb job of showing the relationship between cash flow and accrual accounting and how each relates to valuation. He also shows how corporate strategy affects both the financials and valuation and how to do decent pro formas. For the studious stock analyst, this book is well worth the extra time required to digest its many insights. I rate this book second only to the original Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis.
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Financial Statement Analysis in Europe (The Chapman & Hall Series in Accounting and Finance)
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Financial Statement Analysis: An International Perspective
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Financial Statement Analysis places the practice of accounting in its international context through the examination of the financial statements and corporate reports of major, multinational corporations. To facilitate a better understanding of the interactions between accounting and the business environment, this text looks at the wider operational context, examining accounting's relationship to the business environment both inside and outside the company. Financial Statement Analysis includes a wealth of real-world examples with actual statements from multinational companies to excerpts from financial journalism.
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Although accounting has been called the language of business, misunderstandings and misrepresentations can occur when financial statement data is communicated between countries that use differing accounting standards and methods. Currently, there is no system for presenting corporate financial data in a standardized format. Accountants, tax specialists and investment analysts are forced to rely on the systems they have developed for creating "comparable data" when evaluating international corporate financial information. The title and concept are unique. Kim/Global assumes that the certified financial statements of included corporations contain the useful and reliable financial information that puts investors, creditors and others in a position to make sound business decisions. In order to standardize this data, it applies fundamental analysis to the financial reports of a representative number of corporations doing business worldwide.
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This new edition is designed to meet the rapidly emerging demand for coverage of new international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and the globalisation of accounting in advanced courses. The book is predicated on an IASB framework but the European directives, especially as regards detailed formats having no direct equivalent in IFRS, are discussed in detail. The European context and, in the case of important markets, the national context is recognised and contrasted with the international approach. Important non-European influences, especially those from the US, are included in order to provide a genuinely wide-ranging appreciation of the implications of accounting internationalism. Part 1 - Framework, Theory and Regulation - contains coverage of the theoretical underpinnings of financial reporting in an international context. It also describes the international, European and domestic regulatory framework of accounting. Part 2 - Annual Financial Statements - starts by analysing the legal background of the concept of capital and profit. The relevant parts of the second European directive are introduced and the contents of published financial statements described. The main problem areas of financial reporting as covered by IFRS are then analysed. The approach in these chapters consists of discussion of each problem area and its theoretical issues, discussion of the international regulation relating to the problem, and important national and regional representations or variations. Part 3 -Consolidated Accounts and the Multinational - covers group accounts in an international context. Part 4 - Financial Information and Analysis - discusses in depth the availability and transparency of financial information as published, and then the usage and interpretation of that information. The book is student oriented throughout, and contains activities, examples of reporting using IFRS from real companies' accounts, questions and answers.
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The financial analysis perspective that this text represents is an analytical approach to International Accounting. Instead of focusing on individual FASB’s that constantly change, this text teaches students the concepts behind the standards. Along with this unique approach, the main strengths of this text are its plentiful end-of-chapter material and its use of focus countries to demonstrate accounting systems. This second edition will continue to build on those strengths, as well as update focus countries.
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