Globalization and Its Enemies

Name: Globalization and Its Enemies
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ISBN: 9780262532976

ISBN-10: 0262532972

ISBN-13: 9780262532976

Edition: 2006

Authors: Daniel Cohen

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The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. But the truth of the matter, writes Daniel Cohen in this provocative book, may be the reverse. Globalization, thanks to the speed of twenty-first-century communications, shows people a world of material prosperity that they dowant--a vivid world of promises that have yet to be fulfilled. For the most impoverished developing nations, globalization remains only an elusive image, a fleeting mirage. Never before, Cohen says, have the means of communication--the…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure and the Universitï¿½ de Paris-I. A member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister, he is the author of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age, Globalization and Its Enemies, and Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, all published by the MIT Press.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Birth of the North-South Axis



From One Globalization to Another



The New World Economy



The Clash of Civilizations?



Indigenous Growth



The Empire, Etcetera



AIDS and Debt


Conclusion


Notes and Sources


Index