The handbook of globalisation / edited by Jonathan Michie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michie, Jonathan, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 pages)

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of globalization

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

The past 30 years are often depicted as an era of globalisation, and even more so with the recent rise of global giants such as Google and Amazon. This updated and revised edition of The Handbook of Globalisation offers novel insights into the rapid changes our world is facing, and how best we can handle them. With multi-disciplinary contributions from leading experts, this Handbook covers a broad spectrum of issues and opportunities surrounding modern globalisation. It explores the idea that globalisation is not new, natural or inevitable, but rather that current global arrangements are the result of corporate pressure and the choices of politicians. It highlights the fact that the deregulated, free market form of globalisation is not unavoidable and explores a new era of global co-operation based around a Green New Deal. It also considers the future of globalisation in the face of the Trump presidency, Brexit and the move towards more state-centred policies. This Handbook continues to be a vital resource for scholars, students and researchers of economics, international relations, and business and management who wish to gain a more in-depth understanding of globalisation from a variety of different disciplines. Politicians and policy makers will also benefit from the advice offered to avoid some of the increasingly negative impacts of our globalising world.

Contents:

Contents: The handbook of globalisation: introduction and overview / Jonathan Michie

Part I: Globalisation in Question?

1. The future of globalisation / Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson

2. Financial globalization?: history, conditions and prospects / Grahame Thompson

3. The scope and implications of globalisation / Jonathan Perraton

4. Measures of globalisation and their misinterpretation / Bob Sutcliffe and Andrew Glyn

Part II: Analysing The global economy

5. Innovation and globalisation: a systems of innovation perspective / Jeremy Howells

6. The international debt crisis / Gary Dymski

7. The multiplicity of distributional outcomes across the world: diversities of fundamentals or countries getting the inequality they deserve? / José Gabriel Palma

Part III: Transnational corporations

8. The role of transnational corporations in the globalisation process / Grazia Ietto-Gillies

9. The role and control of multinational corporations in the world economy / Gerald Epstein

10. Foreign direct investment and development from a gender perspective / Elissa Braunstein

Part IV: Labour standards

11. The minimum wage in a global context / Peter Brosnan

12. Globalisation, labour standards and economic development / Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit

13. Global labor standards: their impact and implementation / James Heintz

Part V: Europe and North America

14. Productivity and competition from a global point of view / Joseph Plasmans

15. European integration and the 'Euro project' / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer

16. North American free trade: history, structure and prospects / Jim Stanford

17. The low road to competitive failure: immigrant labour and emigrant jobs in the US / Charles Craypo and Frank Wilkinson

Part VI: Governance

18. Governance in a globalised world / Richard Woodward

19. Global governance / Mathias Koenig-Archibugi

20. The political economy of the third way: the relationship between globalisation and national economic policy / Simon Lee

Part VII: International economic institutions

21. The WTO and its GATS / Scott Sinclair

22. The international monetary fund and the World Bank / John Toye

23. A new 'Bretton woods' system? / Mića Panić

Part VIII: Policy implications and responses

24. Kicking away the ladder - globalisation and economic development in historical perspective / Ha-Joon Chang

25. Time to replace globalisation with localisation / Colin Hines

26. Free trade or social tariffs? / George DeMartino

27. Global inequality and the global financial crisis: the new transmission mechanism / Photis Lysandrou

28. The great crash of 2008 and the reform of economics / Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781788118590

9781788118606

1-78811-860-X