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| | Globalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The main opposition is to unfettered globalization (neoliberal; laissez-faire capitalism), guided by governments and what are claimed to be quasi-governments (such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) that are supposedly not held responsible to the populations that they govern and instead respond mostly to the interests of corporations. | | | Some argue that globalization imposes credit-based economics, resulting in unsustainable growth of debt and debt crises. | | | Many "anti-globalization" activists see globalization as the promotion of a corporatist agenda, which is intent on constricting the freedoms of individuals in the name of profit. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
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| | Globalization - SourceWatch |
| | Globalization, according to one source, is defined politically and economically as "the process of denationalization of markets, politics and legal systems, i.e., the rise of the so-called global economy. | | | After all, this form of globalization would essentially suspend local, regional, and national rights of self-determination over labor, environmental, and agricultural conditions in the name of the dubious benefits of the free market, benefits that would be enforced by unaccountable transnational authorities acting primarily to protect the rights of capital." --Rebecca Solnit, November 2003. | | | Globalization removes control over local resources to remote insensitive trans-national corporations operating solely on an agenda of profits, underinformed of and with insufficient concern for local effects. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Globalization
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| | GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| | At its core is a withering critique of globalization, and of the role played by multilateral institutions and their principal shareholders in pressing developing countries to liberalize their economies. | | | It is becoming more transparent in its decision-making, and more concerned that developing countries should improve the machinery of government before market-oriented policies can succeed. | | | Stiglitz observes that the IMF's objectives have changed "from serving global economic interests to serving the interests of global finance." He is caustic when he talks about top officials of the IMF ending up going to work for large financial institutions. |
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http://www.arlindo-correia.com/100902.html
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| | Globalization and Its Discontents (Excerpt) |
| | I was glad to see the emphasis during the global financial crisis in 1997-98 of the importance of transparency; but saddened by the hypocrisy that the institutions, the IMF and the U.S. Treasury, which emphasized it in East Asia, were among the least transparent that I had encountered in public life. | | | But I also believe that if this is to be the case, the way globalization has been managed, including the international trade agreements that have played such a large role in removing those barriers and the policies that have been imposed on developing countries in the process of globalization, need to be radically rethought. | | | These were crucial issues when the global financial crisis began in 1997. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring03/032439excerpt.htm
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| | Globalization and Its Discontents |
| | The argument I put forward is that these countries governed globalization; they took globalization on their own terms; they made the decisions of what part of it was appropriate with the pace. | | | The positive side of globalization is often underemphasized, that the globalization of knowledge has allowed standards of health to improve all over the world, which has led to increased life expectancy of enormous magnitude. | | | It was expected that globalization would deliver great benefits, from trade-driven growth to political and social openness, and in some cases it has. |
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http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/101?PHPSESSID=ae530d3819d634ceada60c2bb58246f0
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| | Vive le Canada - Globalization and its Discontents |
| | Globalization, in short, is the effort of a single class to gain total governing power and control of the global economy. | | | If the word “Globalization” is intended to mean a free flow of goods and ideas, a relative equalization of living standards and opportunity, as well as global concern for the needs and aspirations of peoples, then it doesn’t exist, isn’t moving towards existence, and has never been intended to do so. | | | For Globalization to take firm hold, the Russian people had to be separated from the economy except as contributors to the wealth of the super rich. |
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http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050618161144808
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| | networkideas.org - Globalization and its Discontents |
| | This insider's account of global economic policy making will be hailed as much for its courage and honesty as for its depth and insight. | | | An institution set up to serve 'global economic interests [had shifted] to serving the interests of global finance'. | | | But he is also an exponent of that brand of political economy that takes full account of the elements of political power and political values, of confidence and legitimacy, which modify and 'distort' market forces and enter crucially into the causal chains that link one economic phenomenon with another, one economic policy with its outcomes. |
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http://www.networkideas.org/book/jun2003/bk05_GAID.htm
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| | Globalization and its discontents November 27, 2000 Reality Bites: Martin A. Lee |
| | The introduction of the euro, and the globalization of financial markets in general, have required painful budgetary retrenchment by member states, which, for better or worse, were forced to relinquish their authority on important fiscal matters to unelected and unaccountable central bankers. | | | Europeans are understandably worried about the economic implications of the euro, which has lost about a quarter of its value against the dollar since it was launched 22 months ago. | | | If anything, the process of European integration is likely to foster the continued growth of radical right-wing parties. |
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http://www.sfbg.com/reality/06.html
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| | Paper: Review of Globalization and its Discontents |
| | As regards its enthusiasm for maintaining debt service while other forms of spending were being cut, the hope was that this would quickly reestablish confidence and so limit the need for austerity. | | | His criticisms of the procyclicality of the IMF's fiscal recommendations, and the contrast between its willingness to see funds used for debt service in contrast to its pressure to cut other spending during a crisis, raises several issues. | | | He criticizes its imperialistic ambitions, as displayed most recently in its insistence that it run the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (a lending facility for poor countries, whose management requires expertise on development that has not traditionally been the IMF's comparative advantage). |
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http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/williamson0602.htm
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| | Asia Times - Globalization and its discontents |
| | Global capital markets, Kose writes, have become significantly more integrated over the past two decades, to the point where, in the case of the United States, the sum of inflows and outflows of foreign direct investment have surged from less than 3 percent of gross domestic product to more than 18 percent today. | | | Canada's trade with the US has doubled since 1993, when NAFTA was ratified by the governments of the three countries. | | | The world factor's role in explaining the synchronization of business circles across the industrialized world is becoming more important as globalization comes more intensive. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/EH19Dj02.html
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| | Excerpts from Globalization and Its Discontents By Joseph Stiglitz |
| | Because of this fear of holding rubles, and the lack of confidence in the government’s ability to repay its debt, by June 1998 the government had to pay almost 60 percent interest rates on its ruble loans (GKOs, the Russian equivalent of U.S. Treasury bills). | | | If it got its act together, it didn’t need money from the outside; and if it didn’t get its act together, it wasn’t clear that any money from the outside would make much difference. | | | Most important, there needs to be a return to basic economic principles; rather than focusing on ephemeral investor psychology, on the unpredictability of confidence, the IMF needs to return to its original mandate of providing funds to restore aggregate demand in countries facing an economic recession. |
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http://www.worldbank.org/transitionnewsletter/mayjune2002/pgs14-17.htm
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| | AsiaMedia :: Globalization and Its Discontents in 2004 |
| | The counterpart of America's immense fiscal deficit is its yawning trade gap. | | | But the cost is enormous: a colossal fiscal deficit that jeopardizes future growth. | | | For them it will be just another instance of having to bear the costs of policy mistakes made in the advanced industrial countries, another instance of globalization gone awry. |
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http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6707
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| | Understanding the Face of Globalization: Globalization |
| | The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization. | | | Mobilization for Global Justice is a progressive network that works against economic globalization, and supports debt cancellation for the poorest countries. | | | The Worldwatch Institute is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/Resources/globalization/globalgen.html
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| | Globalization with Few Discontents? |
| | However, as this article shows, people are less likely to blame globalization for these economic and social problems than to recognize the positive aspects of globalization. | | | But the global public is less divided on the subject. | | | Relatively high percentages also report major increases in travel (58%) and exposure to foreign culture (56%), and that international investors are having more influence on the country’s economic policies (43%). |
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http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=1764
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| | Amazon.com: Globalization and Its Discontents: Books: Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| | He strongly believes that globalization can be a positive force around the world, particularly for the poor, but only if the IMF, World Bank, and WTO dramatically alter the way they operate, beginning with increased transparency and a greater willingness to examine their own actions closely. | | | He may believe globalization is good on balance but he argues that global trade requires global government management. | | | Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393324397?v=glance
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| | GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS |
| | While these stories persist, they are now accompanied by coverage of the disastrous human and environmental consequences of corporate globalism run amuck, and by effusive apologies from the leaders of globalization for failure to spread the benefits of globalization more equitably. | | | The transition at the top of the IMF, where Michel Camdessus was replaced by a fellow European globalizer, Horst Kohler, contained no rebuke to neoliberals or their policies, and Stanley Fischer, chief architect of capital liberalization and punitive IMF conditionality agreements, remains in charge of day to day policy. | | | The global financial system is just as precarious as it was before Seattle. |
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http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Globalism/globalization.htm
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| | Biblio: Globalization and Its Discontents by Sassen- Saskia: Details |
| | Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a collection of Sassen's essays dealing with topics such as the "global city," gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. | | | An examination of the effects of globalization of business on the politics of the nation state. | | | Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines worldwide. |
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http://www.biblio.com/books/isbnnu/21341403.html
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| | Globalization and its discontents |
| | I had originally planned for you to write a paper that dissected "conflicting or confused media accounts of globalization." That's out. | | | How does globalization facilitates the power and influence of non-state actors (NGO’s, IGO’s, MNC’s) at the expense of national governments? | | | Does globalization benefit multinational corporations more than any other type of actor in international relations? |
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http://psci243.blogspot.com
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| | HoweStreet.com |
| | But this new globalized commerce has a fraudulent side to it. | | | But as Niall Ferguson points out in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, globalization is not without its disappointments. | | | He theorized that when labor became interchangeable from one country to another, then competition would become destructive and would push the cost of labor everywhere down to or below the cost of subsistance. |
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http://www.howestreet.com/story.php?ArticleId=1149
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| | Globalization and its Discontents - Issues 2004 - MSNBC.com |
| | We know that the most important consequence of globalization is a massive increase in economic efficiency and considerably greater economic growth for the countries that participate than would otherwise be the case. | | | For example, in Latin American countries, particularly in Brazil and in Mexico, as those countries economies have expanded and as they have participated more in globalization, the rich have gotten richer in comparison to the poor. | | | We have huge amounts of data that show that the poor benefit by improvements in infrastructure and education and income. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3606142
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| | SSRN-A Review of Globalization and Its Discontents by Kevin Kennedy |
| | Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz is an insider's account of the failings of the Bretton Woods institutions during the Clinton Administration. | | | The author, the 2001 Nobel laureate in economics, gives an insider's view of the role played by the Bretton Woods institutions in the globalization process. | | | Globalization and Its Discontents generates a tremendous amount of heat, but sheds very little light on a critically important subject. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=460481
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| | Powell's Books - Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| | While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. | | | Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0393324397-3
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| | Globalization and its Discontents |
| | The World Bank and the IMF were criticized by governments which resented their controls, but it was the WTO which sparked the current protests, which were fueled by the arguments about the world climate, culminating in the Kyoto conference.. | | | It is three of the Specialized Agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization which have provoked the current discontents. | | | Global peacekeeping was the aim of the League of Nations, which failed, and it is now that of the United Nations. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/GlobalIssues/intl_globaldiscontents.html
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| | Globalization and its Discontent Colloquium - Program |
| | February 23: Eyal Benvenisti, University of Tel Aviv : “Public Choice and Global Administrative Law.” Commentator: Lewis Kornhauser. | | | March 22: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton : “Accountability in Global Governance Through Transnational Networks.” Commentator: Charles Sabel, Columbia University. | | | January 26: Richard Stewart, NYU: "U.S. Administrative Law: A Resource for Global Administrative Law?" Commentator: Judge Robert Katzmann, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. |
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http://www.law.nyu.edu/kingsburyb/spring04/globalization/program.html
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| | Globalization and It's Discontents |
| | Making a success of globalization for the benefit of all | | | Indonesia - Malaysia - Thailand Growth Triangle Development Project 9 - 10 November, 1994, Penang, Malaysia | | | Global Enterprise and the U.S. Construction Industry (1988) |
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http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/9973/apec.html
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| | Globalization and Its Discontents |
| | It is about creating and enacting horizontal networks instead of top-down structures like states, parties or corporations; networks based on principles of decentralized, non-hierarchical consensus democracy.”(19) | | | As Klein laments, “Too often, these connections between global and local are not made. | | | People are reclaiming bits of nature and of culture, and saying ‘this is going to be public space.’”(8) Such formulations indicate that local and global levels of analysis may not be as dichotomous as they are sometimes taken to be. |
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http://www.newformulation.org/2amster.htm
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| | Salon News Globalization and its discontents |
| | Read Salon's breaking coverage and analysis of the battle over debt and development. | | | The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters. | | | The protests surrounding this weekend's meetings of the IMF and World Bank are the next step in the backlash to globalization. |
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http://www.salon.com/news/special/wto?CP=SAL&DN=110
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| | Globalization and Its Discontents : HBS Working Knowledge |
| | Joseph E. Stiglitz may be a consummate insider, but in this volume he is not one to toe the party line. | | | The IMF worsened the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and “does not own up to mistakes of monetary policy” in the region, he complains. | | | Globalization and Its Discontents : HBS Working Knowledge |
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?id=3046&t=globalization
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| | Salon Directory |
| | Why "Made in China" is good news for the U.S. The boom in the Chinese microchip industry has Americans worrying about lost jobs and national security. | | | Barry Lynn thinks globalization made America dangerously dependent on foreign companies -- and that disaster is looming. | | | Is this an example of how globalization works to everyone's benefit -- or a sign that the world economy is about to roll over America? |
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http://dir.salon.com/topics/globalization
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| | Reason: Wide world of sports: soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents |
| | It allows a choice of identity, and though that choice can be distressing, it often isn't--and it can advance global affability as well. | | | Soccer is plainly a motor of globalization, with its international appeal and its bouncing of players from one continent to the next. | | | Indeed, Barcelona is alone in not advertising on its jersey, "to show that it resides on a higher plane than the base world of commerce." |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_11_36/ai_n13490449
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| | Find in a Library: Globalization and its discontents |
| | Find in a Library: Globalization and its discontents | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | To find a library, type in a postal code, state, province, or country. |
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