Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade: History, Theory and Empirical Evidence

ISBN-13: 9780415648042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str.

Anwar Shaikh

Opis

The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. This text is a critical examination of this ongoing enterprise, of its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.

Spis treści

  1.  Introduction  Part I: Globalization and Free Trade  2. Kicking Away the Ladder: The Real History of Free Trade  3. Globalization and the Myth of Free Trade  4. Globalization and Free Trade: Theory, History and Reality  Part II: Globalization and Economic Development  5. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe and Brazil  6. Exports and Foreign Investment in Latin America: Skepticism by Way of Simulation  7. Real Exchange Rates, Labor Markets and Manufacturing Exports in a Global Perspective  Part III: Globalization, Gender and Inequality  8. The Great Equalizer?: Globalization Effects on Gender Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean  9. Poverty and Growth in Least Developed Countries: Some Measurement and Conceptual Issues  Part IV: Globalization, Capital Mobility and Competition  10. Capital Account Liberalization, Free Long-Term Capital Flows, Financial Crises and Economic Development  11. Globalization and Profitability Since 1950: A Tale of Two Phases?

O autorze

Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University, USA.