In Defense of Globalization

Author: Jagdish BhagwatiPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2004Language: EnglishPages: 308ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195670515 DescriptionGlobalization has been blamed for everything from child labor to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other ills affecting rich and poor nations alike. Not a day goes by without impassioned authors and activists, whether anti-or pro-globalization, putting their oars into these agitated waters.When all is said, however, we lack a clear, coherent and comprehensive sense of how globalization works, and how it might be made to work better. Enter Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, known equally for the clarity of his arguments and the sharpness of his pen. In this book, Bhagwati takes on globalization’s critics, using sound economic principles and vivid examples rather than inflamed rhetoric, to show that globalizations is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today.Bhagwati ex