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Making Globalization Work » (Reprint)

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Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN-13: 9780393330281, ISBN-10: 0393330281
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Book Synopsis

“A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better.”—Andrew Leonard, Salon

The New York Times - Jeffry A. Frieden

Stiglitz has given us a well-written and informative primer on the major global economic problems. He helps his readers understand exactly what is at stake.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1Another world is possible3
Ch. 2The promise of development25
Ch. 3Making trade fair61
Ch. 4Patents, profits, and people103
Ch. 5Lifting the resource curse133
Ch. 6Saving the planet161
Ch. 7The multinational corporation187
Ch. 8The burden of debt211
Ch. 9Reforming the global reserve system245
Ch. 10Democratizing globalization269

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