Capitalist Globalization : Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives
""Globalization, "" surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business leaders, and mains...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
2013.
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Résumé: | ""Globalization, "" surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business leaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as the natural result of economic development, and a beneficial one at that. But, as noted economist Martin Hart-Landsberg argues, this perception does not match the reality of globalization. The rise of transnational corporations and their global production chains was the result of. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource. |
ISBN: | 9781583673553 |