Research Catalog

Title

Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics / edited by Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baldwin, Robert E.
• Winters, L. Alan

Description

xiii, 544 p. : ill.; 23 cm

Summary

"Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy; its impact on the environment and on labor markets; the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes; and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Baldwin, Winters, and the contributors to this volume look at multinational firms, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions and present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low-wage labor. The book closes with papers on financial opening and on the relationship between international economic policies and national economic growth rates."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

Subjects

• Revenu > Répartition
• Human rights
• International economic relations
• Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
• Mondialisation
• Internationalisatie
• Pressure groups
• Internationale economie
• Income distribution
• Relations économiques internationales
• Globalization
• Groupes de pression

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Challenges to Globalization: An Overview / Robert E. Baldwin and L. Alan Winters -- 1. Assessing Globalization's Critics: "Talkers Are No Good Doers?" / Kimberly Ann Elliott, Debayani Kar and J. David Richardson -- Comment / Harry Flam -- 2. Globalization and Democracy / Carl B. Hamilton -- Comment / Kimberly Ann Elliott -- 3. Geography and Export Performance: External Market Access and Internal Supply Capacity / Stephen Redding and Anthony J. Venables -- Comment / Keith E. Maskus -- 4. Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers / Christopher L. Gilbert and Panos Varangis -- Comment / Joshua Aizenman -- 5. Globalization and Dirty Industries: Do Pollution Havens Matter? / Jean-Marie Grether and Jaime de Melo -- Comment / Simon J. Evenett -- 6. The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France / Vanessa Strauss-Kahn -- Comment / Mari Kangasniemi -- 7. The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? A Survey of the Literature / Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Alan Winters -- Comment / Alan V. Deardorff -- 8. The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries / Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern -- Comment / Andre Sapir -- 9. Home- and Host-Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment / Robert E. Lipsey -- Comment / Vanessa Strauss-Kahn -- 10. Competition for Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: Human Capital, Infrastructure, and Market Size / David L. Carr, James R. Markusen and Keith E. Maskus -- Comment / Anthony J. Venables -- 11. The Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s / Simon J. Evenett -- Comment / Rod Falvey -- 12. Financial Opening: Evidence and Policy Options / Joshua Aizenman -- Comment / Robert M. Stern -- 13. Openness and Growth: What's the Empirical Relationship? / Robert E. Baldwin -- Comment / Simon Commander.

ISBN

• 0226036154 (alk. paper)
• 9780226036151 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003056531

OCLC

• ocm52559209
• 52559209
• SCSB-4866468

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries