Joseph E Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, WW Norton & Company, 2002, pp. 282

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

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