Buku ini menawarkan kepada kita cara-cara baru dalam memandang globalisasi. Diteliti dengan baik, panoramik dalam cakupannya, dan merupakan tikaman balasan yang sempurna bagi pendukung-pendukung globalisasi dan model pertumbuhan "satu ukuran untuk semua'". Buku ini membahas strategi bagaimana keluar dari kemiskinan, mitos dan fakta tentang globalisasi, bagaimana negara-negara kaya menjadi ka…
In controversial speeches made around the world, Stiglitz has undone the conventional wisdom that dominated policy-making at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. For the first time, Stiglitz's nine most revealing speeches have been gathered together, covering such topics as the failure of shock therapy and transition economics, the limits of capital ma…
The role of the state in the economy has always been a controversial issue in public debate, but it has become more so in the last quarter of a century with the rise of neoliberal thinking that preaches the virtues of unregulated markets and recommends de-regulation, opening-up, and privatisation. This push for a minimal, pro-business state, especially in developing countries, has been furth…
In this context, the lessons that may be drawn from economic his- tory, both past and recent, are very pertinent: virtually all of today's de- veloped and advanced developing countries have actively used tariffs in their industrialisation process. The suspension of the WTO discussions provides an invaluable window of opportunity to re-think the need for industrial policies in developing countri…