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Globalization: Tame It or Scrap It?
'Globalization is irreversible and irresistible.'
Tony Blair
This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible.
Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement. One, perhaps the most widely supported and influential strand today, calls the Fair Trade and Back to Bretton Woods school. This argues for immediate reforms of the world's trading system, capital markets, and global institutions, notably the World Bank, IMF and WTO. The other, the Localization school, takes a more root and branch position and argues for the abolition of these institutions and outright reversal of globalization. Buckman explains the details of each school's outlook and proposals, their weaknesses, where they disagree, their common ground, and where they might come together in campaigns.
This book gives the lie to the claim that globalization is 'irreversible and irresistible'. Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement, explaining the details of each school's outlook, their weaknesses, where they disagree, their common ground, and where they might come together in campaigns.
Tony Blair
This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible.
Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement. One, perhaps the most widely supported and influential strand today, calls the Fair Trade and Back to Bretton Woods school. This argues for immediate reforms of the world's trading system, capital markets, and global institutions, notably the World Bank, IMF and WTO. The other, the Localization school, takes a more root and branch position and argues for the abolition of these institutions and outright reversal of globalization. Buckman explains the details of each school's outlook and proposals, their weaknesses, where they disagree, their common ground, and where they might come together in campaigns.
This book gives the lie to the claim that globalization is 'irreversible and irresistible'. Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement, explaining the details of each school's outlook, their weaknesses, where they disagree, their common ground, and where they might come together in campaigns.
250 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2004
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July 22, 2017
Quite informative in its account of economic globalization - its impact and challenges, driving forces and so forth (but certainly not "objective", if that's what you're looking for). Less successful in its dealings with the opposition to the globalizing forces and the policy proposals of the former. Buckman for some reason finds it necessary to divide the anti-globalization movement into two opposing "schools", the Fair Trade school and the Localization school, an analytical distinction that feels quite forced, especially considering it's debateable whether such a movement really exists. Hardly any of the parties and NGOs the author cites here are strictly focused on opposing globalization per se, but rather battles fervorously against neoliberalism, centralization, neocolonialism and/or environmental degradation (just to name a few issues). The book is naturally a bit outdated. Would have loved to see some up-to-date statistics!
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