Globalization and its discontents

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Title:

Author:

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

ISBN:

9780713996647

9780141010380

Personal Author:

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2002.

Physical Description:

xxii, 288 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents:

The promise of global institutions -- Broken promises -- Freedom to choose? -- The East Asian crisis : how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown -- Who lost Russia? -- Unfair trade laws and other mischief -- Better roads to the market -- The IMF's other agenda -- The way ahead.

Abstract:

A controversial and authoritative account of the world's financial institutions during the 1990s. It contains a condemnation of their policies and methods of directing the economies of developing nations by a Nobel prize winner and former chief economist at the World Bank.

Corporate Subject:

International Monetary Fund -- Developing countries.

Subject Term:

International economic integration.

Foreign trade regulation.

International finance.

Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Commercial policy.

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In this contraversial book, the author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a powerful force for good, it has been badly mishandled by the West (espeically in its lead institutions, the World Bank and the IMF) and that the anti-globalizing protestors have much to say that we should listen to. Coming from a figure of Stiglitz's background and authority, this is an explosive message which may change the way we regard current global politics.