Real World Globalization
- Edition:
- 10th
- Date of publication:
- August 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-1-878585-76-9
- Pages:
- 379
- Price:
- $34.95
- CHAPTER 1: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION
- 1.1 The Gospel of Free Trade
- 1.2 Free Markets, International Commerce, and Economic Development
- 1.3 What’s Wrong with Neoliberalism?
- 1.4 Debunking the Index of Economic Freedom
- 1.5 The World Is Not Flat
- CHAPTER 2: CORPORATE POWER AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
- 2.1 U.S. Banks and the Dirty Money Empire
- 2.2 The Business of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- 2.3 Enron in the Third World
- 2.4 Stop Killer Coke!
- 2.5 Blood on the Palms
- CHAPTER 3: TRADE, INVESTMENT, AND DEBT
- 3.1 What Causes Exchange-Rate Fluctuations?
- 3.2 Disarming the Debt Trap
- 3.3 Where Do U.S. Dollars Go When the United States Runs a Trade Deficit?
- 3.4 Dollar Anxiety: Real Reasons to Worry
- 3.5 Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies
- CHAPTER 4: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND TRADE AGREEMENTS
- 4.1 The ABCs of the Global Economy
- 4.2 The ABCs of Free-Trade Agreements
- 4.3 Beyond the Creditors’ Cartels
- 4.4 The Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China
- 4.5 From NAFTA to the SPP
- 4.6 Women of NAFTA
- CHAPTER 5: LABOR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
- 5.1 International Labor Standards
- 5.2 The Globalization Clock
- 5.3 Free Markets and Death Squads in Haiti
- 5.4 Oaxaca’s Dangerous Teachers
- 5.5 Nike to the Rescue?
- 5.6 Outsized Offshore Outsourcing
- CHAPTER 6: MIGRATION
- 6.1 The Right to Stay Home
- 6.2 “They Work Here, They Live Here, They Stay Here!”
- 6.3 Made in Argentina
- 6.4 The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy
- 6.5 Remittances to the Rescue?
- CHAPTER 7: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- 7.1 World History and Economic Development
- 7.2 Is Decreasing Infant Mortality Due to Neoliberal Policies?
- 7.3 Measures of Global Poverty
- 7.4 Microcredit and Women’s Poverty
- 7.5 Fair Trade and Farm Subsidies: How Big a Deal? Two Views
- Make Trade Fair
- False Promises on Trade
- 7.6 Inequality Worsens Across Asia, Wall Street Journal Cheers
- 7.7 How to Make Mud Cookies
- 7.8 Reforming Land Reform
- 7.9 Land Reform under Lula: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- CHAPTER 8: NATURAL RESOURCES, HEALTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- 8.1 Genetic Engineering and the Privatization of Seeds
- 8.2 The ABCs of AIDS Prevention
- 8.3 Fisherfolk Out, Tourists In
- 8.4 Minding the Timor Gap
- 8.5 The Global Oil Market
- 8.6 Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces
- 8.7 Climate Change and Ecosocialism
- CHAPTER 9: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WAR AND IMPERIALISM
- 9.1 Why the Emperor Has No Clothes
- 9.2 U.S. Imperialism, Militarism, and the U.S. Labor Unions
- 9.3 War on the Earth
- 9.4 In Vieques, Puerto Rico, La Lucha Continua
- 9.5 Conscripted by Poverty
- 9.6 Iraq’s Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil
- CHAPTER 10: GLOBAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
- 10.1 Putting the “Global” in the Global Economic Crisis
- 10.2 (Economic) Freedom's Just Another Word for ... Crisis-Prone
- 10.3 The Giant Pool of Money
- 10.4 The Specter of Capital Flight
- 10.5 Tax Havens and the Financial Crisis
- 10.6 No Bailout for AIDS
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