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globalization, the nature of markets, and the spread of neoliberalism. The pursuit of free trade is a profoundly social process and …
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established forms of economics. One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization …; we can have a different globalization. Traditional free trade doctrine rests on shaky empirical and theoretical ground …
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Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them. But what would a fair or just global economy look like? <i>Economic Justice in an Unfair World</i>...
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In <i>War, Wine, and Taxes</i>, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers...
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The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial...
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The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company’s Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial...
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Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are...
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Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening … disadvantaged nations near and far. But in <i>The Next Great Globalization</i>, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the … opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich. Mishkin argues that an effectively …
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globalization, mercantilism, and reserve accumulation. …
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