Real World Globalization

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

Edition:

21st

Date of publication:

December 2022

ISBN:

978-1-939402-71-4

Pages:

382

Price:

$42.50

• About
• Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1—CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION
  • 1.1 The Global Economy Today Arthur MacEwan
  • 1.2 Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism Jayati Ghosh
  • 1.3 Inequality in the World Arthur MacEwan
  • 1.4 Globalization in Crisis John Miller
  • Covid-19 Spotlight:
    
    • 1.5 The Pandemic and the Global Economy Jayati Ghosh
• 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
  • Covid-19 Spotlight:
    
    • 2.5 Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi, as edited and abridged by the Dollars & Sense Collective
    • 2.6 The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis John Miller
• CHAPTER 3—CORPORATE POWER AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
  • 3.1 Control the Vampire Companies Jayati Ghosh
  • 3.2 Monopoly Everywhere Armağan Gezici
  • 3.3 No Friendship in Trade Sasha Breger Bush
  • 3.4 If Corporations Are People, What Kind of People Are They? Geoff Schneider
  • 3.5 Ensuring Fairer International Corporate Taxation Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury
  • 3.6 Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on the People of Mozambique Vijay Prashad
  • Covid-19 Spotlight:
    
    • 3.7 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 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
  • Covid-19 Spotlight:
    
    • 6.4 Trump’s Withdrawal From the World Health Organization Prabir Purkayastha
• 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
• 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 Tim 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
• 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 Leaky Governance: The Politics and Economics of Gasoline Theft in Mexico Francisco J. Aldape
  • Covid-19 Spotlight:
    
    • 10.5 Stringent, Stingy, and Severe: The Covid-19 Crisis in Modi’s Smriti Rao
• 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 Austerity-Obsessed Europe Could Combat Climate Change Without Raising Taxes Dean Baker
  • 12.5 Why Some Leaders in Poorer Countries are Championing the Environment Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
  • 12.6 Farmers Halt a Land-Grab in Mozambique Timothy A. Wise
• CHAPTER 13—RESISTANCE AND ALTERNATIVES
  • 13.1 Equality, Solidarity, Sustainability 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 Leveraging Financial Markets for Social Justice Doug Orr
  • 13.8 On the Floor with Startbucks Workers Alyssa Alfaro

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