Globaloney 2.0 : The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Globalization
ISBN-10
0742567451
ISBN-13
9780742567450
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 16th, 2010
Print length
238 Pages
Weight
354 grams
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15.20 x 23.00 x 1.80 cms
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Globalization is in retreat, but history tells us that this is but a temporary reversal. Globalization will return, but in what form? More cycles of boom and bust? Or can globalization be rebuilt on a more feasible and sustainable platform? These are the compelling questions that Michael Veseth tackles in this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his award-winning book, illuminating the path to a sustainable global future.
Michael Veseth''s imaginative account of the varieties of globalization demands the attention of both scholars and students of the world economy. Through original case studies and deeply informed analyses, Veseth presents a fresh picture of a refreshingly diverse and serendipitous globalization. While the media, activists and policymakers generally paint globalization with a single brush, Veseth draws on a broad palette to puncture popular myths and promotes critical thinking. Globaloney is an important new work that advances our understanding of globalization and its effect on society and culture as well as business and finance.
Veseth . . . succeeds in debunking conventional wisdoms, and his digressions on such subjects as the international wine trade and French snobbery are entertaining.
In Globaloney, Michael Veseth achieves a rare combination: he conveys important economic arguments in a vivid and highly entertaining style. For anyone trying to assess the goods and bads of headlong progress toward a global economy, and trying to sort bogus fears from genuine reasons for concern, this book is a great place to start.
Michael Veseth continues his amiable progress through the enchanted, topsy-turvy world of contemporary economic mythology. A real economist with an observant mind, he provides a series of suave and charming tales from his travels through the real world—stories whose subjects range from Adam Smith to Michael Jordan, from soccer to the French, from mediocre mass food to global good wine. Skillfully blended together, these chase away the goblins of globaloney and leave us with a nicer world than we had thought.
With his customary verve, Michael Veseth has launched a passionate broadside against what he calls the ''myths'' of globalization. Not everyone will agree with his unorthodox views; many will be provoked. But this book deserves to reach a wide audience. In a style both witty and easily accessible, Veseth uses familiar elements of popular culture to challenge conventional thinking. Readers will feast on Globaloney.
This book is destined to please many readers.
This book presents a novel and engaging critical analysis that incorporates insights from political economy into a story that will appeal to a wide readership.
Using a term coined by Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 for Vice President Henry Wallace''s foreign policy, Veseth critiques today''s rhetoric of globalization. He uses case studies and economic concepts to help readers understand globalization''s basis in finance and its many complications. Recommended particularly for academic libraries supporting programs in business and economics; libraries should consider purchasing Veseth''s previous work as well. Both titles aim to have readers ''think out of the box'' when it comes to the concept of globalization. With a valuable extensive bibliography.
A lively and informative textbook that brings to life the real meaning of globalization. The author is neither a cheerleader for nor a crusader against globalization. He simply seeks to explain this concept and its various manifestations in an objective fashion.
Here''s a book to break the spell cast by simplistic economic creeds from both left and right. If you want to make fresh discoveries about the global marketplace, Michael Veseth is your man. Don''t let his lively, informal prose style fool you. He has a scientist''s keen nose for tracking what''s true back to its native lair: that wild thicket of fact where prevailing theory just won''t fit.
Michael Veseth''s Globaloney is the perfect down-to-earth primer for undergraduates trying to understand the debate over globalization. By focusing on commodities within every student''s reach—baloney, Michael Jordan, and soccer balls—Veseth transparently links abstract global processes to real life.
Engaging, illuminating, and thought-provoking.
Michael Veseth''s entertaining book is written for a more general audience than standard academic texts and as such represents an attempt to engage the mythology and the rhetoric of globalisation on its own ground. Most interestingly, perhaps, Veseth chooses to take on some of globalisation''s harshest critics, suggesting that they are as guilty of conjuring up myths to serve particular claims about the world as are their opponents in the pro-globalisation camp. Veseth''s proseis eminently readable while being grounded with solid empirical findings. Globaloney should prove to be of great use in the classroom.
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