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Title

Open world : the truth about globalisation / Philippe Legrain.

Author

Legrain, Philippe

Publication

London : Abacus, 2002.

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Details

Description

367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. Aiming to demolish what he argues are the "myths" of globalization, the author shows how, without it, the poor are never going to get richer and that it is the only means by which governments can combat poverty.

Subject

• Globalization
• Globalization > Social aspects
• globalism
• Mondialisation
• Aspects sociaux
• Globalisierung
• Weltproblematik
• Internationalisatie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [348]-357) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Free to choose: what kind of globalisation do we want? -- 1. Worried workers: globalisation is actually the least of their worries -- 2. The poor profit: globalisation is the only route out of poverty -- 3. A brief history of globalisation: how our open world emerged -- 4. Brand new world?: why brands are not all-conquering beasts -- 5. Giants with clay feet: why companies don't run the world -- 6. The phantom menace: why government is not under threat -- 7. Global government: how the world should (and shouldn't) be run -- 8. Food for thought: why farm trade should be freed -- 9. Endangered earth?: how globalisation can be green -- 10. Patently wrong: how global patent laws harm the poor and the sick -- 11. Financial failings: why global money should be caged -- 12. Culture clash: individual freedom, not Coke, rules OK -- 13. A different world: we can build a better globalisation.

ISBN

• 034911644X
• 9780349116440
• 9780349115290
• 034911529X

LCCN

2003428863

OCLC

• ocm50215548
• 50215548
• SCSB-1286025

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library