Globalization: The Essentials Book Information:

lobalization, Conceptualization, Origins, and History, Conceptualizing Globalization, From "Solids" to "Liquids", "Flows", "Heavy" and "Light", "Heavy" Structures that Expedite "Flows", "Heavy" Structures as Barriers to "Flows", Subtler Structural Barriers, Origins and History of Globalization, Hardwired, Cycles, Epochs, Events, Broader, More Recent Changes, Chapter Summary, 2. Theorizing Globalization, Imperialism, Colonialism, Development, Americanization, Anti-Americanism as a Global Process, Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism: Basic Ideas, The Neo-Liberal State, Critiquing Neo-Liberalism: Karl Polanyi, Contemporary Criticisms of Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Marxian Theories, Transnational Capitalism, Empire, Chapter Summary, 3. Structuring the Global Economy, Before Bretton Woods, A Prior Epoch of Globalization, Economic Development during and after WW II, Bretton Woods and the Bretton Woods System, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, The End of Bretton Woods, Changes in, and Critiques of, Bretton-Woods-Era Organizations, Other Important Economic Organizations, The Multinational Corporation (MNC), The Myth of Economic Globalization?, Chapter Summary, 4. Global Economic Flows, Trade, Trade Surpluses and Deficits, Global Trade: Economic Chains and Networks, Global Value Chains: China and the US, Scrap metal, Waste paper, T-shirts, iPhones, Increasing Competition for Commodities, The Economic Impact of the Flow of Oil, Oil Wealth, Race to the Bottom and Upgrading, Upgrading in the Less Developed World?, Outsourcing, Financial Globalization, The Great Recession, Consumption, Consumer Objects and Services, Consumers, Consumption Processes, Consumption Sites, Global Resistance.

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Higher Education Textbooks

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Paperback

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English

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• Globalization: The Essentials Published On :

2011

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