Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice - Softcover

Stiglitz, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141024968 ISBN 13: 9780141024967

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

From Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work gives real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming.

In Globalization and its Discontents Joseph Stiglitz changed the views of the public and world leaders alike by showing why globalization doesn't work for the world's poor.

In this bold, ambitious follow-up, Stiglitz shows how powerful organizations such as the UN, the IMF and the World Bank can be made to consider everyone's interests.

Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking to the future. He puts forward radical new solutions to the seemingly intractable international problems which we face - in forms that are more likely to be accepted both by the US and the developing world than previous proposals.

Another world is possible, he argues, and is not only morally right, but of benefit to us all.

'Passionate, engaging ... he speaks from the heart as well as the head'
  Independent

'The man with a mission to save the poor ... offers a wealth of ideas for global reform'
  The Times

'A searing critique of conventional wisdom'
  Newsweek

'An excellent book ... a lodestar for those who want to achieve a different and better world'
  Guardian

Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world's best-known economists. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He is currently Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the author of the bestselling Globalization and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties, both published by Penguin.

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Review:

Stiglitz has written an excellent book that can act as a lodestar for those who want to achieve a different and better world (Martin Jacques Guardian)

Synopsis:

Why isn't globalization benefitting as many people as it should? Joe Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work. Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking to the future. He puts forward radical new ways of dealing with the crippling indebtedness of developing countries, a new system of global reserves to overcome international financial instability and a new framework, combining economic incentives and principles of equity, for dealing with the greatest threat to our planet, global warming - one which is more likely to be accepted both by the US and the developing world than previous proposals.He argues convincingly for the reform of global institutions such as the UN, the IMF and the World Bank to make them truly capable of responding to the problems of our age and shows why treating developing countries more fairly is not only morally right, but ultimately will be to the benefit of the developed countries as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141024968
• ISBN 13: 9780141024967
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384