From a leader of the anti-globalization movement, a statement like this would not be remarkable. But coming from Joseph Stiglitz-former Chief Economist at the World Bank-it is startling and challenging. Stiglitz's extraordinary authority and experience make this a compelling book. He argues that the West has seriously mismanaged the process of privatization, liberalization, and stabilization, a…
Buku ini hadir untuk menjelaskan ke publik mengenai keseriusan Presiden SBY dalam menjalankan perubahan pendekatan dan kebijakan kewilayahan yang menghargai dan menghormati keragaman dan konteks lokal yang berkembang tanpa melupakan berbagai tantangan global.
Economic relations between the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the countries of the European Community (EC) have a long history as well as great future potential. Merchant adventures, colonialist, traders, and foreign inventors from Europe have in the last two centuries brought about a continous exchange of goods, interests and ideas with Southeast Asia
The continuous globalization of the world economy poses new challenges for the governance of economic activities. This is particularly the case in the area of foreign direct investment. Investment and trade liberalization have provided greater freedom to transnational corporations to organize their production activities across borders in accordance with their own corporate strategies and the co…
This book comprises key essays on comparative regionalism and, more broadly, on regional conflict and cooperation by Professor Etel Solingen. The study of regionalism, a subject pioneered by Solingen in the 1990s, is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of scholars and practitioners around the world. This book provides a window into an evolving conceptual framework for c…
Gordon Hewart's Statement is especially true for the Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia, the UN-backed tribunal established to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge for some of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century. The court is expected not only for provide justice for victims and survivors, but also to provide a model for the rule of law in Cambodia. This report looks b…
The most widely accepted justification for political authority is that coercive institutions are necessary to provide for public goods. Making use of the tools of rational choice theory, economics, and the law of contracts, the author offers a critique of this argument. Along the way, he makes significant contributions to our understanding of the logic of contractarian arguments, the prisoner's…
Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the state-of-the-art analysis and sketch out some promising policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios.
In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerf…
Globalization and its discontents adalah sebuah buku yang diterbitkan pada tahun 2002 oleh pemenang Nobel 2001 Joseph E. Stiglitz. Buku ini mengacu pada pengalaman pribadi Stiglitz sebagai ketua Dewan Penasihat Ekonomi di bawah Bill Clinton dari tahun 1993 dan kepala ekonom di Bank Dunia dari tahun 1997. Selama periode ini Stiglitz menjadi kecewa dengan IMF dan lembaga-lembaga internasional lai…