Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, WW Norton & Company, 2002, pp. 282
Friedman Takes a Taxi Outta Town
Friedman Takes a Taxi Outta Town Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 11/29/2006 Category: Editorial As an elderly comedian I once met, unwilling to think of his death or any one else’s, referred to the death of a friend as his “taking a taxi outta town”. Another friend, also elderly, […]
Neoliberalism: The Second Pillage
This article compares neo-liberal economic globalization to the older and similar process of globalization in the era of European colonialism. The case studies of Chile under Pinochet, and Thailand and South Korea after the 1997 financial crisis are discussed to show that neo-liberalism, as an economic philisophy, has caused significant social damage and placed the goals of equitable prosperity and human development further out of reach.