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Books : Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice
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Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice by: Joseph E. Stiglitz List Price: £20.00 Price: £4.45 You Save: £15.55 (78%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713999099 ISBN: 0713999098 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: September 07, 2006 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 124833 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Agenda for a better worldAfter three decades of market fundamentalism, during which the rich have grown richer and the poor have in many countries grown poorer, Professor Stiglitz suggests practical ways of undoing the damage and creating a just and stable world economy. With chapters on fair trade, intellectual property, natural resources, climate change, multinational corporations, indebtedness, the world monetary system and democratization, this is a comprehensive prescription for reform. It is presented with a wealth of examples and backed by 46 pages of detailed notes and references. My only quibble is that the author does not face the question of how much more the world economy can grow without becoming unsustainable, but perhaps that can only be addressed once ... Read More: Rating:  - How we should cope with each otherJoseph Stiglitz continues with his thoughts from his book "Globalization and its Discontents". He describes his discontents with the process of globalisation. The globalisation provides the best way of connecting people with each other and from different countries. But he criticizes the way how the developed countries make this work. He wants an active part of the state in his view of globalisation, like it is common in Europe. His book gives the globalisation a more human view. Globalisation works only, if you get the economic growth and the employment aspects together and look for a stable policy. Globalisation does not mean a free market economy and a deregulated economy. The Washington Consensus is looking for this sort of globalisation. A low ... Read More: Rating:  - Populist guff.If people of influence and those aspiring to such a position want to ensure that the poor stay poor and wilful manipulation of trade is the norm, this book by Joseph E. Stiglitz is the one to read, to know how to maintain this inequality. Terminology abounds which panders to the common misunderstanding of such things as fairness, monopolies, natural resources and wealth, for example. He also has an annoying habit of telling us about what is bad, is going to suggest some remedy, and then skips on to the next thing to criticise. Natural resources are, by and large, simply the raw material basis from which products are manufactured using capital and intellect in order to create things of value and subsequently wealth through trade. Crude ... Read More: Rating: - ALL men are created equal, and FAIR trade instead of free tradeFor J. Stiglitz, it is a compelling moral case to make globalization work, especially for the poor and the developing countries. The actual rules of the globalization game have been set by the developed countries in order to protect special individual, corporate and financial interests. The author sees 6 areas where dramatic changes (with a huge potential of dramatic results) are necessary for the global well-being of our planet. Poverty relief: it is a shame that billions of human beings are still living in abject conditions. Speaking of intellectual property rights in their face is a deadly joke. Debt relief and legal help: diminish or eliminate the debt burden of the poorest countries and help the developing ... Read More: |
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