In Defense of Globalization

Zusatztext ...an excellent and even-handed analytic description of globalization and its side-effects for economists and even non-economists. Informationen zum Autor Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times and is the author of Free Trade Today, The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, and A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy. He lives in New York City. Klappentext In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics blame it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations. Now Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization can be a powerful force for social good. Zusammenfassung In the passionate debate over globalization, critics have blamed it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now the economist, Bhagwati, reveals that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today.

Product details

• Authors: Jagdish Bhagwati, Jagdish N. Bhagwati
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2007
• EAN: 9780195330939
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533093-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business; Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, International business, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, International Trade, International trade and commerce