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Reason
September 2004
Prakash Loungani |
Globalization Without Tears The book In Defense of Globalization tries to show that major complaints about the adverse social effects of globalization are mistaken. Globalization in fact reduces poverty and the use of child labor, fosters women's rights, promotes respect for democratic norms, enriches culture, and even sustains the environment.   |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001 |
Book reviews and notes The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati... Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century by Michael Edwards... The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics... etc. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Arvind Subramanian |
People in Economics--The Globalization Guru An interview with Jagdish Bhagwati, a leading economist in the area of trade and development and a tireless opponent of protectionism and advocate of free trade. |
Reason
July 2003
Charles Oliver |
Tear Down These Walls Two of free trade's most able defenders have written new books arguing for renewed efforts at opening global markets. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Countries by Theodore H. Moran... Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Carlos Lopes, and Kahid Malik... Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati... etc. |
BusinessWeek
March 22, 2004
Peter Coy |
The Convictions Of A Convert In defending globalization, Bhagwati isn't standing up for the status quo. He's making the case for a humane form of globalization guided by enlightened government policies. It made sense in 1963, and it makes sense in 2004. |
Reason
March 2003
Charles Oliver |
Global Speculators A billionaire and a Nobel laureate want to fix international trade agencies. Why bother? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression by Harold James... Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All by Diane Coyle... Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe by Mitchell A. Orenstein... etc. |
Reason
June 2009
Brink Lindsey |
Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere. |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
Amartya Sen and the Thousand Faces of Poverty What is poverty? How is it measured? Who are the poor? Amartya Sen, Nobel Prizewinner for Economics, has devoted his life to such basic questions about development... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2003 |
Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Arvind Subramanian |
Economist as Crusader An interview with economist Paul Krugman whose Age of Diminished Expectations and Peddling Prosperity filled the gap between the boringly descriptive genre of up-and-down economics books and sensationalist and shallow airport economics books. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Peter D. Sutherland |
Why We Should Embrace Globalization For the first time, many companies are operating on a global basis. Although this change has raised fears among some people in both industrial and developing countries, it offers new and exciting opportunities for raising living standards worldwide. |
Finance & Development
December 2008 |
Book Reviews The Arab Economies in a Changing World, Marcus Noland and Howard Peck... Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade, Bill Emmott... The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Present of American Affluence, Robert J. Samuelson, etc. |
Reason
December 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Poor Man's Hero Controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Dadush & Nielson |
Governing Global Trade The multilateral system that has underpinned world trade for over 50 years is facing serious challenges. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
Jagdish Bhagwati |
Targeting Rich-Country Protectionism Even as the rich countries have lowered their trade barriers over the past five decades, they have continued to maintain a strongly protectionist stance against the labor-intensive products made in poor countries. This is a deplorable fact, attention to which is certainly welcome... |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Mark Horowitz |
Jagdish Bhagwati: Keep Free Trade Free The Columbia University economist, 74, who has advised everyone from the Indian government to the World Trade Organization, is a rare nonpartisan in a field dominated by ideologues. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 10, 2006 |
Readers Respond: Has Globalization Reached Its Peak? I don't think globalization has reached its peak... Globalization comes in waves... The results of globalization beyond outsourcing have been enormous... etc. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001 |
Letters to the Editor Trade liberalization... Water management... |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 10, 2005 |
Readers Respond: What's the Future of Globally Organized Labor? Some readers believe unions are on their way out because of market pressures and ineffectiveness, while others think they provides a valuable service and can adapt to changing conditions. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004 |
The Pick of This Year's Crop of Books Running the gamut from Ted Turner to Alexander Hamilton, here's the top 10 business books of 2004 as selected by BusinessWeek reviewers. |
U.S. Banker
September 2010
Jeffrey Pfeffer |
A Matter of Competitiveness It's not just about GDP and profits. Progressive countries also measure economic success by citizens health, quality of life and job satisfaction. U.S. policymakers and corporate executives would be wise to take note. |
IndustryWeek
December 16, 2005
Traci Purdum |
Questioning Globalization Competition on a global scale is squeezing manufacturers dry. |
