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Making globalization work / Joseph E. Stiglitz.

By: Material type: TextTextLondon : Penguin, c2007Description: xxv, 358 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141024967 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337 STI 23 022355
Contents:
Another world is possible -- The promise of development -- Making trade fair -- Patents, profits, and people -- Lifting the resource curse -- Saving the planet -- The multinational corporation -- The burden of debt -- Reforming the global reserve system -- Democratizing globalization.
Summary: [This book] focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America's debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade, and much more. Throughout, [the author] reveals that economic globalization continues to outpace both the political structures and the moral sensitivity required to ensure a just and sustainable world. And he makes plain the real work that all nations must undertake to realize that goal.-Dust jacket
List(s) this item appears in: New Collections - January 2025
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 337 STI 022355 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 022355

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Another world is possible -- The promise of development -- Making trade fair -- Patents, profits, and people -- Lifting the resource curse -- Saving the planet -- The multinational corporation -- The burden of debt -- Reforming the global reserve system -- Democratizing globalization.

[This book] focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America's debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade, and much more. Throughout, [the author] reveals that economic globalization continues to outpace both the political structures and the moral sensitivity required to ensure a just and sustainable world. And he makes plain the real work that all nations must undertake to realize that goal.-Dust jacket

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