Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization : : Escaping a Nationalist Perspective / / Gavin Kitching.

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• VerfasserIn: Kitching, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the ";globalization"; of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• An Additional Note
• PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION, SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
• 1 Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
• 2 Defining the Term: A Useful Way to Start?
• PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON
• 3 The End of the Postwar Long Boom
• 4 The Role of the Transnational Corporation
• 5 Globalization as a Monetary Phenomenon
• 6 Global Direct Investment Since the 1970s
• 7 Globalization as a Communications Phenomenon
• PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD POVERTY
• 8 Globalization and the World's Poor
• 9 Industrialization and the Alleviation of Poverty
• 10 Poverty and Peasant Agriculture
• PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND IMPERIALISM
• 11 Globalization and Imperialism
• 12 The Psychological Dimensions of Globalization
• 13 Industrialization and Historical Compulsion
• PART FIVE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE
• 14 Nationalism and Capitalism
• 15 Globalization and Modern Economic Nationalism
• 16 The Ricardian Game
• 17 Non-Nationalist Economic Policies for a Globalizing World
• 18 Globalization and Imagination: Beyond Economics
• 19 Conclusions: Globalization and the Left
• Appendix: Ricardo and Unimaginable Realities: A Dialogue
• Bibliography
• Index