Open World
The Truth about Globalisation
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2003
Summary
Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are taking over the world, that governments’ ability to tax, spend and regulate is under threat from global competition, that globalisation harms the poor and that democracy is at risk.
Not so. This tightly argued and fiercely intelligent book demolishes some of these myths and shows how, without glob…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349115290 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034911529X |
| Author: | Philippe Legrain |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 201mm x 26mm |
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The world did need another book about globalisation; OPEN WORLD is it - ECONOMIST
At last a good book on globalisation … lucid and persuasive - FINANCIAL TIMES[Legrain] engages with the big issues much more convincingly than Klein - SUNDAY TIMESIf you have been convinced by Naomi Klein or Noreena Hertz, you owe it to yourself to hear Legrain’s persuasive defence - NEW STATESMANAbout The Author
Philippe Legrain
Studied economics & international politics at LSE. Until recently, special adviser to the D.G. of the WTO. Formerly trade & economics correspondent for THE ECONOMIST and has written for the FT, Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, Foreign Policy & Ecologist.
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