Addresses how international organizations such as the UN and the WTO have changed the mechanisms and reasoning behind the making, implementation, and enforcement of international law. Argues that existing descriptions of international law and international organizations do not d…
The essays in this volume explore interactions between North and South and South and South in trade, technology and finance, focusing on the interests of the south, and particularly the poor.
Comprises a collection of papers on a wide range of subjects related to globalization and the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
"Globalisation is an issue that has been high on the research agenda for several years, spawning a vast and at times unwieldy literature. A concept often ill-defined, it has generated a plethora of unresolved and fiercely contested questions, the nature of which depends on which…
"Greg Buckman argues that economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. This is persuasively articulated in the first half of the book, where a comprehensible overview is provided of how globalization came about. Globalization is eminently reversible…
Contrarian economist Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" theories of Thomas Friedman and other neo-liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today…
"Fiscal policy makers have faced an extraordinarily challenging environment over the last few years. At the outset of the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time advocated a fiscal expansion across all countries able to afford it, a seem…
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
