Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039332981X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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However, the author points out that this was also true from the end of the 1800s to 1914 and the start of World War I. From Booklist Frieden, an academic, traces the history of globalization from the late 1800s to the present, telling us, "Global economy and culture form a nearly seamless web in which the national boundaries are increasingly irrelevant to trade, investment, finance and other economic activity." Globalization is a choice formed by politics and policy decisions. All rights reserved. International integration usually expands economic opportunities and benefits society, but global capitalism, which does not address those ill-treated by world markets (e.g., the unemployed, the poor, children and the elderly), has driven societies toward conflict and class warfare. The foundations of preexisting global economic order disintegrated,
"Globalization 2.0" according to Izaak VanGaalen. Jeffrey Frieden, a Harvard professor specializing in international trade and finance, has written a masterly and comprehensive history of capitalism from 1870 to the present. His history of globalization reminds us that it is not a recent develpment and that its current success is not guaranteed.The firs. Almost tempted to give it a miss I was almost tempted to give the book a miss after seeing the high ratings that were given by reviewers that seemed to be anti-globalizationists (what an awkward term!)However, I came across the book at my library and gave it a chance, and I was not disappointed. It is a book that does a creditable job o. winners and losers, a scorecard Linksman Although he begins slowly and tempts one to cast the book aside prematurely, Professor Frieden ultimately provides a useful play by play account of global trade and money flows over the past one hundred odd years. Whether or not he intended to prove as much, his chronicle demonstrates that absent sound p
Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. "Magisterial historyone of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book Review In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as enterta
Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. Frieden is the author of Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Politics and (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery. . Jeffry A. He specializes in the politics of intern