Making Globalization Work

✍ Scribed by Stiglitz, Joseph E

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2009;2007
• Tongue: English
• Edition: Pbk. ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

[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.;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.

✦ Table of 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.

✦ Subjects

Globalization--Economic aspects;Foreign trade regulation;International economic integration;Electronic books;Globalization -- Economic aspects