Real World Globalization

Edited by Elizabeth T. Henderson, Arthur MacEwan, Jawied Nawabi, Abhilasha Srivastava,
and the Dollars & Sense collective

real world globalization cover
Edition:
22nd
Date of publication:
November 2023
ISBN:
978-1-939402-81-3
Pages:
390
Price:
$42.50


  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1—CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION
    • 1.1 The Global Economy: Background for Today Arthur MacEwan
    • 1.2 Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism Jayati Ghosh
    • 1.3 The Pandemic and the Global Economy Jayati Ghosh
    • 1.4 Inequality in the World Arthur MacEwan
    • 1.5 Globalization in Crisis John Miller
  • CHAPTER 2—INHERENT CRISES OF CAPITALISM
    • 2.1 The “Emerging Economies” Today Jayati Ghosh
    • 2.2 “Secular Stagnation” Continues John Miller
    • 2.3 German Wage Repression John Miller
    • 2.4 “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else” Arthur MacEwan
    • 2.5 Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi, as edited and abridged by the Dollars & Sense Collective
  • CHAPTER 3—CORPORATE POWER AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    • 3.1 Control the Vampire Companies Jayati Ghosh
    • 3.2 Monopoly Everywhere Armağan Gezici
    • 3.3 If Corporations Are People, What Kind of People Are They? Geoff Schneider
    • 3.4 Ensuring Fairer International Corporate Taxation Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury
    • 3.5 Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on the People of Mozambique Vijay Prashad
    • 3.6 Are Governments Economically Stupid in Failing to Suspend Patent Protection for Vaccines? Arthur MacEwan
  • CHAPTER 4—INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT
    • 4.1 The Gospel of Free Trade Arthur MacEwan
    • 4.2 Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
    • 4.3 Comparative Advantage Ramaa Vasudevan
    • 4.4 The United States Has Given Protectionism a Bad Name William G, Moseley
    • 4.5 Local, or Far Away? Arthur MacEwan
  • CHAPTER 5—INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
    • 5.1 SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade Bill Barclay
    • 5.2 Inflation Targeting and Neoliberalism An Interview with Gerald Epstein
    • 5.3 No Blank Check for Development Banks Kevin Gallagher and Jörg Haas
    • 5.4 Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us Hadas Thier
  • CHAPTER 6—INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
    • 6.1 The IMF and World Bank The Dollars & Sense Collective
    • 6.2 The World Trade Organization The Dollars & Sense Collective
    • 6.3 The European Union and the Eurozone The Dollars & Sense Collective
    • 6.4 Trump’s Withdrawal From the World Health Organization Prabir Purkayastha
    • 6.5 Schizophrenia at the IMF Jayati Ghosh
  • CHAPTER 7—LABOR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
    • 7.1 The Globalization Clock Thomas Palley
    • 7.2 Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy Jayati Ghosh
    • 7.3 Transnational Capital and Transnational Labor An Interview with William K. Tabb
    • 7.4 Outsized Offshore Outsourcing John Miller
    • 7.5 Taylor's Digital Stopwatch Robert Ovetz
    • 7.6 No Friendship in Trade Sasha Breger Bush
    • 7.7 Brewing Inequality Saurav Sarkar
  • CHAPTER 8—MIGRATION
    • 8.1 Walled Off From Reality John Miller
    • 8.2 “Migration Is a Form of Fighting Back” David Bacon
    • 8.3 Europe’s Refugee “Crisis” Jayati Ghosh
    • 8.4 Climate Change and the Immigration Debate Lyuba Zarsky
    • 8.5 Going Beyond Immigration Policy Timothy A. Wise
    • 8.6 As Honduras Collapses, Its People Are Forced to Flee Laura Carlson
    • 8.7 Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation and Exploitation David Bacon and Anuradha Mittal
  • CHAPTER 9—CHALLENGES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    • 9.1 Measuring Economic Development: The “Human Development” Approach Alejandro Reuss
    • 9.2 Famine Myths William G. Moseley
    • 9.3 Land Reform: A Precondition for Sustainable Economic Development Jawied Nawabi
    • 9.4 Capital Flight from Africa: What Is to Be Done? James K. Boyce
    • 9.5 Another False Start in Africa with Green Revolution Myths Timothy A. Wise and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
    • 9.6 Magical Thinking About Fertilizer and Climate Change Timothy A. Wise
    • 9.7 The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • CHAPTER 10—THE STATE, DEVELOPMENT, AND GLOBALIZATION
    • 10.1 What Ever Happened to Development? Jawied Nawabi
    • 10.2 Latin America Needs an Efficient Developmentist State An Interview with Matías Vernengo
    • 10.3 Confronting Neoliberalism at Last: Power vs. Policy in Gabriel Boric's Chile James M. Cypher
    • 10.4 Stop Cheapening Mexico’s White and Native Corn An interview by Timothy A. Wise with Víctor Suárez Carrera
  • CHAPTER 11—THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMPIRE
    • 11.1 Colonialism, “Underdevelopment,” and the International Division of Labor Alejandro Reuss
    • 11.2 Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation? Arthur MacEwan
    • 11.3 Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm: Colonialization, Privatization, and Trump Arthur MacEwan
    • 11.4 “Tied” Foreign Aid Arthur MacEwan
    • 11.5 Haiti’s Fault Lines Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly
  • CHAPTER 12—NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    • 12.1 Can We Afford a Stable Climate? Frank Ackerman
    • 12.2 Solving the Climate Crisis with Nuclear Energy Won't Work Robert Pollin
    • 12.3 Is Economic Growth Ecologically Sustainable? Arthur MacEwan
    • 12.4 The Highway to Climate Hell John Miller
    • 12.5 Imperialism and Natural Resources Prabhat Patnaik
    • 12.6 Why Some Leaders in Poorer Countries are Championing the Environment Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
    • 12.7 Farmers Halt a Land-Grab in Mozambique Timothy A. Wise
  • CHAPTER 13—RESISTANCE AND ALTERNATIVES
    • 13.1 Equality, Solidarity, Sustainability An Interview with Jayati Ghosh
    • 13.2 After Horror, Change? John Miller
    • 13.3 Understanding France’s Gilets Jaunes Aarth Saraph
    • 13.4 The Buenaventura Civic Strike Patricia M. Rodriguez
    • 13.5 The Fight Against Mining Companies Goes Global Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
    • 13.6 India’s Farmers Protests Sirisha Naidu
    • 13.7 Battling Starbucks Saurav Sarkar
  • Contributors