Globalization and its discontents
The author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a force for good, it has been mishandled by the West (espeically in its institutions, the World Bank and the IMF) and that the anti-globalizing protestors have much to say that we should listen to.
xxii, 288 pages ; 20 cm
9780713996647, 9780393051247, 0713996641, 0393051242
223349313
The promise of global institutions; broken promises; freedom to choose?; the East Asia crisis - how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown; who lost Russia?; unfair trade laws and other mischief; better roads to the market; the IMF's other agenda; the way ahead.