ISBN:
0191634247
,
9780191634246
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 346 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rodrik, Dani, 1957 - The globalization paradox
Keywords:
Globalisierung
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Weltwirtschaftsordnung
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Internationale Wirtschaft
;
Demokratie
;
Souveränität
;
Global Governance
;
Kapitalismus
;
Theorie
;
Welt
;
Globalization Economic aspects
;
International economic integration
;
International economic relations
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; Economics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; International ; General
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Globalization ; Economic aspects
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International economic integration
;
International economic relations
;
Globalisierung
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Exzess
;
Demokratie
;
Nationalstaat
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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