Has Globalization Gone Too Far?

-- Dani Rodrik, Institute for International Economics

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Authors: Dani Rodrik

Has Globalization Gone Too Far? US Economic Policy: US Trade

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by Dani Rodrik

March 1997 • 128 pp. ISBN paper 0-88132-241-5 • $25.00 Globalization: Issues and Impact

Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the

education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world
market—the apparent "winners"—and those without. These
Fighting the Wrong Enemy:
apparent "losers" are increasingly anxious about their standards of
Antiglobal Activists and
living and their precarious place in an integrated world economy. Multinational Enterprises
The result is severe tension between the market and broad sectors
of society, with governments caught in the middle. Compounding
Why Global Commitment Really
News Release the very real problems that need to be addressed by all involved,
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the kneejerk rhetoric of both sides threatens to crowd out rational
"... a fascinating piece debate. From the United States to Europe to Asia, positions are
hardening. Author Dani Rodrik brings a clear and reasoned voice Imagine There's No Country:
of work, and much the
best thing I've seen so to these questions.Has Globalization Gone Too Far? takes an Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in
far on the subject ... unblinking and objective look at the benefits—and risks—of the Era of Globalization
the bottom line is: the
international economic integration, and criticizes mainstream
IIE strikes again, with
the right study at the economists for downplaying its dangers. It also makes a unique
right time. [The and persuasive case that the "winners" have as much at stake from
Institute's] record on the possible consequences of social instability as the "losers." As
topicality and quality Rodrik points out, ". . . social disintegration is not a spectator sport
truly is amazing."
—those on the sidelines also get splashed with mud from the field.
Ultimately, the deepening of social fissures can harm all." President
Clive Crook Clinton read the book and it provided the conceptual basis for the
The Economist
trade/IMF portions of his State of the Union message in January
1998.
"This provocative and
interesting study
promises to make a Globalization is "the next great foreign policy debate," Thomas
significant contribution Friedman of the New York Times wrote, and he found Has
to the on-going
Globalization Gone Too Far? "provocative" on the subject. This
debate ... one must
commend him for book provides a critical definition—and welcome clarity—to that
presenting a fresh, debate.
creative, and clearly-
argued approach to the
relevant issues ... Contents
essential reading."
Preface
Susan M. Collins
The Brookings
Institution Acknowledgments

1. Introduction 325.4KB

2. Consequences of Trade for Labor Markets and the

Employment Relationship 329.8KB

3. Tensions Between Trade and Domestic Social

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Arrangements 227.9KB

4. Trade and the Demand for Social Insurance 809.7KB

5. Implications 255.7KB

Appendix A-B 392.3KB

References

Index

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