Globalization Paradox Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

Name: Globalization Paradox Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
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ISBN: 9780393071610

ISBN-10: 0393071618

ISBN-13: 9780393071610

Edition: 2011

Authors: Dani Rodrik

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From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras-the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime, the "Washington Consensus"-brought great success and great failure. In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik offers a new narrative, one that embraces an ineluctable tension: we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. When the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/21/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Stanley Fischer is former Governor of the Bank of Israel and has been nominated as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve]. He is the author of IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis: The International Financial System, Stabilization, and Development (MIT Press).Dani Rodrik is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.



Introduction: Recasting Globalization's Narrative



Of Markets and States: Globalization in History's Mirror



The Rise and Fall of the First Great Globalization



Why Doesn't Everyone Get the Case for Free Trade?



Bretton Woods, GATT, and the WTO: Trade in a Politicized World



Financial Globalization Follies



The Foxes and hedgehogs of Finance



Poor Countries in a Rich World



Trade Fundamentalism in the Tropics



The Political Trilemma of the World Economy



Is Global Governance Feasible? Is It Desirable?



Designing Capitalism 3.0



A Sane Globalization


Afterword: A Bedtime Story for Grown-ups


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index