Re: looking for a book on the global economy

[Bill Rosenberg <w.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about the following. Second half consists of great case studies.

Bill

Title  The globalization of poverty : impacts of IMF and World Bank reforms /
Michel Chossudovsky.
Author Chossudovsky, Michel.
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Zed Books ; Penang, Malaysia : Third
World Network, 1997.
Subjects International Monetary Fund --Developing countries.
         International Monetary Fund --Europe, Eastern.
         World Bank --Developing countries.
         World Bank --Europe, Eastern.
         Poverty --Developing countries.
         Poverty --Europe, Eastern.

Description  280 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN 1856494020 (pbk.)  1856494012 (hardbound)
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.

Peter Dorman wrote:
>
> Well, campers, my teaching team has started planning for the winter, and
> I'm wondering if any of you can recommend a good book on the global
> economy.  The ideal book would:
>
> discuss the origin, management, and consequences of third world debt,
>
> the politics and economics of structural adjustment,
>
> liberalization of capital flows and instability in foreign exchange
> markets,
>
> debates within, between, and against the international financial
> institutions,
>
> the east Asian financial crisis,
>
> and the upsurge in global inequality.
>
> It would also:
>
> put all of this within a political context, and
>
> be readable by students with the equivalent of intro micro, intro macro,
> and political economy.
>
> It isn't necessary to have a book that "theorizes" all of this in some
> novel way or pushes a particular interpretation.  The most important
> thing is to convey the facts of recent history, the political and
> institutional context, and the types of arguments different people are
> making.  (Yes, I know, some degree of theoretical commitment is
> necessary to do these things, but I'm more interested in the planets
> than the telescope right now...)
>
> Peter

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