The Contemporary Global Economy: A History Since 1980

ISBN-13: 9781405183444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 318 str.

Jr. Alfred E. Eckes

Opis

The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today.

• A lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research in data and documents, accessible to the non-specialist
• Written by a renowned specialist in international economic relations with academic and government credentials
• Offers clear and engaging explanations of the main motors of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today
• The author assumes little knowledge of economic theory or financial markets
• Identifies the challenges for sustainable recovery and economic growth in the years ahead

Recenzje

"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower–division students, faculty, and general readers." (Choice, 1 December 2011)

"I highly recommend the brilliant and well reasoned book The Contemporary Global Economy: A History since 1980 by Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., to anyone seeking a well written and comprehensive book on the march of globalization since 1980. The author presents the information, in a format that is readily understood by any reader, as to how the driving forces of economic change operate and how they are clearly visible today." (Blog Business World, 12 August 2011)

"The book is a lucid and balanced survey, based on extensive research, accessible to the non–specialist." (GMF, 2011)

 

Spis treści

Series Editor s Preface.

Preface.

List of Abbreviations.

1. Introduction.

2. The Global Economy before 1980.

3. The Rich Nations.

4. The Developing World.

5. Thinking about the Global Economy.

6. International Trade.

7. Global Business.

8. Internationalization of Finance.

9. The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2010.

10. The Underside of the Global Economy.

11. Epilogue.

Notes.

Suggestions for Further Reading.

References.

Index.

O autorze

Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., is Ohio Eminent Research Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University and a former Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission. He has published a number of books on international trade and finance, the competition for world resources, and globalization.   Eckes is a former president and executive vice president of the International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), an organization of academics and professionals from 25 countries. He has served as editor of its journal, the Global Economy Journal.

Blurb

In The Contemporary Global Economy, Alfred Eckes provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy for non–specialists. Focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s, the book views developments historically, explaining how the main motors of economic change work and how we can discern their effects in the world today.

Eckes begins with a brief description of economic change since the nineteenth century, the age of the ′first global economy′, and indicates how the dramatic change in the world economy since the 1980s led to a new era in global expansion with the rise of China and other emerging powers. He explains how structural imbalances, policy mistakes, and excesses led to the financial crisis of 2007–2010.

The book describes the different aspects of the economy from the role of the World Trade Organization to the workings of financial markets, and the actions of the International Monetary Fund and the Group of Twenty nations.  It explains the underlying changes that have affected individuals in their various roles as consumers, producers, workers and citizens around the world, and identifies the challenges for sustainable economic growth in the years ahead.  It also examines the underside of globalization, including human trafficking, sweatshops, organized crime, unsafe products, and environmental destruction.