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Making Globalization Work
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 337
EAN: 9780393330281
ISBN: 0393330281
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 04, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
"A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."—Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the indebtedness of developing countries, international fiscal instability, and worldwide pollution. Stiglitz also argues for the reform of global financial institutions, trade agreements, and intellectual property laws, to make them better able to respond to the growing disparity between the richest and poorest countries. Now more than ever before, globalization has gathered the peoples of the world into one community, bringing with it a need to think and act globally. This trenchant, intellectually powerful book is an invaluable step in that process. This paperback edition contains a brand-new preface.
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Rating:  - an important contribution to the debate
"Making Globalization Work" is a worthy follow-up to "Globalization and its Discontents". In fact, it is a more interesting read than the other book because it explores a broader array of issues. Here are some of its notable points.
Chapter 3 ("Making Trade Fair") documents the discrepancy between the rhetoric and the practice of developed countries that preach the virtues of free trade and push for greater trade liberalization in the developing countries while in the meantime broadly ... Read More
Rating:  - Prescription for the Discontents
Since the Berlin Wall fell, the fact is, the next level of globalization has produced far too many losers and not enough winners. We are continuing to poison the environment; there are too many people living on less than $2 a day; states without security have left the door for terrorists and other malcontents to run rampant. It appears to some that the West will continue to underdevelop the rest of the world for the sake of increased profits.
Yet, there is some hope on the horizon. Joseph ... Read More
Rating: - Much Needed Work!
In the preface to The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money John Maynard Keynes wrote `The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds". In his timely and much needed Making Globalization Work Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz attempts to bring the market under control and proposes a myriad of innovative mechanisms which will make `globalization work.' While I admire Stiglitz's ... Read More
Rating: - excellent
The product arrived in a timely fashion and in the condition described. Excellent seller. Would do business again.
Rating: - Creating Global Democracy
Stiglitz is the Nobel prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank and former chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. He has been directly involved in most of the institutions that form global economic policy. He is an international mover and shaker. He is also one of the highest ranking voices of dissent. His previous book "Globalization and its Discontents" chronicled the world-wide pervasiveness of far less rosy consequences of corporate-driven globalization than the pure market ... Read More
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