Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 346 pages)
ISBN:
0191634247
,
9780191634246
Content:
For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them?Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the Washington Consensus, to the present day. Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countrie
Content:
INTRODUCTION: Recasting Globalization's Narrative; 1. Of Markets and States: Globalization in History's Mirror; 2. The Rise and Fall of the First Great Globalization; 3. Why Doesn't Everyone Get the Case for Free Trade?; 4. Bretton Woods, GATT, and the WTO: Trade in a Politicized World; 5. Financial Globalization Follies; 6. The Foxes and Hedgehogs of Finance; 7. Poor Countries in a Rich World; 8. Trade Fundamentalism in the Tropics; 9. The Political Trilemma of the World Economy; 10. Is Global Governance Feasible? Is It Desirable?; 11. Designing Capitalism 3.0; 12. A Sane GlobalizationAFTERWORD: A Bedtime Story for Grown-ups; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199603336
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0199603332
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199652525
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rodrik, Dani, 1957 - The globalization paradox Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 0199603332
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199603336
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Globalisierung
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Exzess
;
Demokratie
;
Nationalstaat
Author information:
Rodrik, Dani 1957-
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