Cengkeh, Komoditas Unik, misterius dan serba guna. Zaman Pencerahan dan Revolusi Industri di Eropa berhutang budi kepadanya. disusul dengan perang panjang dan pertumpahan darah. diselundupkan keluar dari daerah asalnya untuk ditanam di tempat lain. Cengkeh hampir tinggal jadi sejarah, Hingga industri rokok kretek menyelamatkannya. Namun komoditas asli maluku ini menghadapi tantangan yang tak ku…
Readers of Globalization and Its Discontents will already be familiar with the controversy and organised resistance that globalisation has generated around the world due to massive media coverage, yet explaining what globalisation actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph S…
The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree. He says he came to this realization while eating a sushi box lunch on a Japanese bullet train after visiting a Lexus f…