Globalization and Its Discontents provides insight into the most serious economic crises of recent years In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz argues that the policies set out by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often hurt the very countries they were supposed to help, resulting in increased instability and heightened economic crises. This clear and detailed summary and...
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Book Review: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Book Review: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
978280801913244EBookPlurilingua PublishingGlobalization and Its Discontents provides insight into the most serious economic crises of recent years
In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz argues that the policies set out by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often hurt the very countries they were supposed to help, resulting in increased instability and heightened economic crises.
This clear and detailed summary and analysis is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand Stiglitz’s book: it features a thorough explanation of the author’s aims, the main concepts and policies he discusses, including the Washington Consensus, and the contextual background to his work, in particular the so-called East Asian Miracle and the rise of neoliberalism in the West.
It also provides a discussion of the impact and legacy of Stiglitz’s ideas, as well as the main criticisms that have been levelled at his recommendations, giving you everything you need to understand this influential book in just 50 minutes.
This accessible and insightful 44-page summary and analysis is structured as follows:
Globalization and Its Discontents
Context
The author: Joseph Stiglitz
Context and background
Summary of Globalization and Its Discontents
Impact of Globalization and Its Discontents
Reception
Criticisms of Stliglitz’s approach
Legacy
Summary
About Globalization and Its Discontents
Globalization and Its Discontents offers an insider’s view of the workings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: its author, Joseph Stiglitz, was chief economist at the World Bank in the 1990s, and as such had first-hand insight into the organization’s policies and their role in the financial crises of that decade.
About Joseph Stiglitz
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is known in particular for his work in information economics, which acknowledges the asymmetry of information in markets to study its impact on economic decisions, and for his vocal criticisms of austerity and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. After the global financial crisis of 2008, he was appointed as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System and currently chairs the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.Globalization and Its Discontents provides insight into the most serious economic crises of recent years
In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz argues that the policies set out by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often hurt the very countries they were supposed to help, resulting in increased instability and heightened economic crises.
This clear and detailed summary and analysis is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand Stiglitz’s book: it features a thorough explanation of the author’s aims, the main concepts and policies he discusses, including the Washington Consensus, and the contextual background to his work, in particular the so-called East Asian Miracle and the rise of neoliberalism in the West.
It also provides a discussion of the impact and legacy of Stiglitz’s ideas, as well as the main criticisms that have been levelled at his recommendations, giving you everything you need to understand this influential book in just 50 minutes.
This accessible and insightful 44-page summary and analysis is structured as follows:
Globalization and Its Discontents
Context
The author: Joseph Stiglitz
Context and background
Summary of Globalization and Its Discontents
Impact of Globalization and Its Discontents
Reception
Criticisms of Stliglitz’s approach
Legacy
Summary
About Globalization and Its Discontents
Globalization and Its Discontents offers an insider’s view of the workings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: its author, Joseph Stiglitz, was chief economist at the World Bank in the 1990s, and as such had first-hand insight into the organization’s policies and their role in the financial crises of that decade.
About Joseph Stiglitz
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is known in particular for his work in information economics, which acknowledges the asymmetry of information in markets to study its impact on economic decisions, and for his vocal criticisms of austerity and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. After the global financial crisis of 2008, he was appointed as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System and currently chairs the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.application/pdf1 capitalism, development, economics, globalization, human development, International Monetary Fund, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winners
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In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz argues that the policies set out by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often hurt the very countries they were supposed to help, resulting in increased instability and heightened economic crises.
This clear and detailed summary and analysis is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand Stiglitz’s book: it features a thorough explanation of the author’s aims, the main concepts and policies he discusses, including the Washington Consensus, and the contextual background to his work, in particular the so-called East Asian Miracle and the rise of neoliberalism in the West.
It also provides a discussion of the impact and legacy of Stiglitz’s ideas, as well as the main criticisms that have been levelled at his recommendations, giving you everything you need to understand this influential book in just 50 minutes.
This accessible and insightful 44-page summary and analysis is structured as follows:
- Globalization and Its Discontents
- Context
- The author: Joseph Stiglitz
- Context and background
- Summary of Globalization and Its Discontents
- Impact of Globalization and Its Discontents
- Reception
- Criticisms of Stliglitz’s approach
- Legacy
- Summary
About Globalization and Its Discontents
Globalization and Its Discontents offers an insider’s view of the workings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: its author, Joseph Stiglitz, was chief economist at the World Bank in the 1990s, and as such had first-hand insight into the organization’s policies and their role in the financial crises of that decade.
About Joseph Stiglitz
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is known in particular for his work in information economics, which acknowledges the asymmetry of information in markets to study its impact on economic decisions, and for his vocal criticisms of austerity and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. After the global financial crisis of 2008, he was appointed as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System and currently chairs the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
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| ISBN | 9782808019132 |
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| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Series | 50MINUTES.COM – Book Review |
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| Pages | 44 |
| File size | 2.8 MB |
