The Political Economy of Globalization

Ngaire Woods

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780333985625
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

The Political Economy of Globalization brings together original chapters by leading authorities to provide much-needed evidence and analysis in relation to a highly contentious phenomenon and concept. The book shows how investment patterns are being transformed, a global civil society is emerging, and governments are losing control of national currencies. However, it also makes it clear that globalization does not prohibit strong governments from maintaining a welfare state and good working conditions and how they can co-operate to manage the flow of goods, money, people, and problems across borders.
The Political Economy of Globalization brings together original chapters by leading authorities to provide much-needed evidence and analysis in relation to a highly contentious phenomenon and concept. The book shows how investment patterns are being transformed, a global civil society is emerging, and governments are losing control of national currencies. However, it also makes it clear that globalization does not prohibit strong governments from maintaining a welfare state and good working conditions and how they can co-operate to manage the flow of goods, money, people, and problems across borders.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Preface
• 1 The Political Economy of Globalization
• 2 The New Geography of Foreign Direct Investment
• 3 Trade, Regionalism and the Threat to Multilateralism
• 4 Money in a Globalized World
• 5 Globalization and National Autonomy
• 6 Globalization as a Mode of Thinking in Major Institutional Actors
• 7 Global Civil Society
• 8 The Challenge to International Institutions*
• Index