Globalization and Its Discontents

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Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

ISBN-10: 0393051242

ISBN-13: 9780393051247

Category: Commercial Law

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This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. James K. Galbraith This book is everyone's guide to the misgovernment of globalization. Stiglitz explains it here in plain and compelling language.

PrefaceAcknowledgments1The Promise of Global Institutions32Broken Promises233Freedom to Choose?534The East Asia Crisis: How IMF Policies Brought the World to the verge of a Global Meltdown895Who Lost Russia?1336Unfair Trade Laws and Other Mischief1667Better Roads to the Market1808The IMF's Other Agenda1959The Way Ahead214Notes253Index269