Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? - Softcover

Streeten, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8763000849 ISBN 13: 9788763000840

Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2001

Synopsis

The book examines the impact of globalisation on growth, productivity, unemployment, income distribution, technology and institutions, as well as on culture.

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Review:

"...the most balanced survey of the many aspects and the costs and benefits of globalisation from an author superbly qualified by a lifetime's work and experience." Sir Hans Singer, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex "Paul Streeten gives us the cumulated wisdom of a lifetime spent in imaginative thinking about development, set within, but cutting through the hype and pretensions of, the globalisation debate." Ronald Dore, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Visiting Professor at INSEAD

Synopsis:

Covering the main aspects of globalization, namely trade, global financial flows, technology and transnational corporations, and international convergence of real wages, this book is concerned with the beneficial and harmful aspects of globalization. The author examines the impact of globalization on growth, productivity, unemployment, income distribution, technology and institutions, as well as on culture. He discusses the role of government in the era of globalization; one generally expects the scope of government to diminish as globalization proceeds. Instead, he argues that globalization and free markets call not for less government but for more, as well as for pressures from the civil society. 5

About this edition

• Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 8763000849
• ISBN 13: 9788763000840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190