Real world globalization
Subtitle: a reader in economics, business, and politics from Dollars & Sense
By: edited by Ravi Bhandari, Alejandro Reuss, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense Collective
Contributors: Dollars & Sense (Organization)
Edition: 12th edition.
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc., d/b/a Dollars & Sense
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781939402011
Subjects: Globalization; Economic aspects; International economic relations; Foreign Investments; International agencies; Labor; Economic development; International Agencies; Work; Mondialisation; Investissements étrangers; Organisations internationales; Travail; Développement économique; International organizations
Other titles: Dollars & Sense (Somerville, Mass.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Critical perspectives on globalization --; title: 1.1. The gospel of free trade  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 1.2. Inevitable, irresistible and irreversible?  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: 1.3. Debunking the "Index of economic freedom"  -- John Miller; title: 1.4. Rich and poor in the global economy  -- Bob Sutcliffe; title: 1.5. Free markets, international commerce, and economic development  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Chapter 2. Corporate power and the global economy --; title: 2.1. Monopoly captial and global competition  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 2.2. U.S. banks and the dirty money empire  -- James Petras; title: 2.3. Syergy in security  -- Tom Barry; title: 2.3. The other Colombia: the economics and politics of depropriation  -- Patricia M. Rodriguez; title: 2.5. Bankruptcy as corporate makeover  -- Mara Kardas-Nelson, Lin Nelson, and Anne Fischel; title: Chapter 3. Trade, currency, and debt --; title: 3.1. "Pressure from the bond market:  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 3.2. Fair trade and farm subsidies: how big a deal? Two views. Make trade fair  -- Gawain Kripke; title: False promises on trade  -- Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot; title: 3.3. What causes exchange rate fluctuations?  -- Arthur Mac Ewan; title: 3.4. Who wins when the dollar loses value?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 3.5. Is China's currency manipulation hurting the U.S.?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 3.6. Comparative advantage  -- Ramaa Vadsudevan; title: 3.7. Disarming the debt trap  -- Ellen Frank; title: 3.8. W(h)ither the dollar?  -- Katherine Sciacchitano; title: Chapter 4. International institutions and trade agreements --; title: 4.1. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank  -- The Dollars & Sense Collective; title: 4.2. The World Trade Organization (WTO)  -- The Dollars & Sense Collective; title: 4.3. NAFTA and CAFTA  -- The Dollars & Sense Collective; title: 4.4 The European Union (EU) and the Eurozone  -- The Dollars & Sense Collective; title: 4.5. Wounded Tiger: Ireland submits to the IMF  -- Dan Read; title: 4.6. Structural adjustment, here and there  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 4.7. Obama's double game on outsourcing -- Roger Bybee.; title: Chapter 5. Labor in the global economy --; title: 5.1. International labor standards  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 5.2. Campus struggles against sweatshops continue  -- Sarahh Blaskey and Phil Gasper; title: 5.3. Nike to the rescue?  -- John Miller; title: 5.4. Outsized offshore outsourcing  -- John Miller; title: 5.5. Are low wages and job loss inevitable?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 5.6. On strike in China  -- Chris Tilly and Marie Kennedy; title: Chapter 6. Migration --; title: 6.1. The new political economy of immigration  -- Tom Barry; title: 6.2. They work here, they live here, they stay here!  -- Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly; title: 6.3. Made in Argentina  -- Marie Trigona; title: 6.4. The right to stay home  -- David Bacon; title: 6.5. The rise of migrant worker militancy  -- Immanuel Ness; title: Chapter 7. Economic development --; title: 7.1. World history and economic development  -- Ravi Bhandari and Kenneth Pomeranz; title: 7.2. Microcredit and women's poverty  -- Susan F. Feiner and Drucilla K. Barker; title: 7.3. Reforming land reform  -- Ravi Bhandari and Alex Linghorn; title: 7.4. Famine myths  -- William G. Moseley; title: 7.5. Measuring economic development  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: 7.6. Turning gas into development in Bolivia  -- Aaron Luoma and Gretchen Gordon; title: Chapter 8. Natural resources and the environment --; title: 8.1. Genetic engineering and the privatization of seeds  -- Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset; title: 8.2. Is the United States a pollution haven?  -- Frank Ackerman; title: 8.3. Climate economics in four easy pieces  -- Frank Ackerman; title: 8.4. The costs of extreme weather  -- Heidi Garrett-Peltier; title: 8.5. Keep it in the ground  -- Elissa Dennis; title: Chapter 9. The political economy of war and imperialism --; title: 9.1 Is it oil?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 9.2. The true cost of oil  -- Anita Dancs; title: 9.3. Tied foreign aid  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: 9.4. Haiti's fault lines  -- Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly; title: 9.5. Colonialism, underdevelopment, and the international division of labor  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: Chapter 10. Global economic crisis --; title: 10.1 Putting the "global" in the global economic crisis  -- Smriti Rao; title: 10.2. (Economic) freedom's just another word for ... crisis-prone  -- John Miller; title: 10.3. The giant pool of money  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Spotlight: Europe --; title: 10.4. Greece and the Eurozone crisis by the numbers  -- Gerald Friedman; title: 10.5. Why the United States is not Greece  -- John Miller and Katherin Sciacchitano; title: 10.6. Europe and the global crisis  -- Jayati Ghosh; title: 10.7. Resistance to austerity grows in Europe -- Marjolein van der Veen.