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Seeking social justice through globalization : escaping a nationalist perspective /

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the "globalization" of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it is...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kitching, Gavin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION, SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES: Globalization: buzzword or new phenomenon?
  • Defining the term: a useful way to start?
  • PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON: The end of the postwar long boom
  • The role of transnational corporation
  • Globalization as a monetary phenomenon
  • Global direct investment since the 1970s
  • Globalization as a communications phenomenon
  • PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD POVERTY: Globalization and the world's poor
  • Industrialization and the alleviation of poverty
  • Poverty and peasant agriculture
  • PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE: Nationalism and capitalism
  • Globalization and modern economic nationalism
  • The Ricardian game
  • Neo-nationalism economic policies for a globalizing world
  • Globalization and imagination: beyond economics
  • Conclusion: Globalization and the Left
  • Appendix: Ricardo and unimaginable realities: a dialogue,