The Globalization Paradox

Gordon Brown, MP Review from previous edition This book takes on the biggest issue of our time - globalization - and eloquently enlarges the debate about the extent and limits of global cooperation


Nouriel Roubini, co-author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance In this powerfully argued book, Dani Rodrik makes the case for country-specific paths to economic development and saner, more sustainable forms of growth. A provocative look at the excesses of hyper-globalization, The Globalization Paradox should be required reading for those who seek to prevent the financial crises and unfair trade practices that feed the backlash against open markets


Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve Dani Rodrik may be globalization's most prominent - and most thoughtful - gadfly. In The Globalization Paradox, he wonders aloud whether extreme globalization undermines democracy - and vice-versa. Read it and you'll wonder, too


Robert Rowthorn, Finance and Development His excellent new book is a sequel to an earlier book about the often disruptive impact of international trade on national labor markets and social policies. The new book develops and extends this theme to include financial globalization... Rodrik concludes by considering how the world economy might be reformed


Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post His message is nuanced and rigorous, drawing on history, logic and the latest economic data, he manages to convey it in simple, powerful prose tht any reader can follow

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect Simply the best recent treatment of the globalization dilemma. . . he gives us nothing less than a general theory of globalization, development, democracy, and the state. The book provides the pleasure of following a thoughtful, critical mind working through a complex puzzle. Rodrik writes in highly friendly and nontechnical prose, blending a wide-ranging knowledge of economic history and politics and a gentle, occasionally incredulous, skepticism about the narrow and distorting lens of his fellow economists

Dani Rodrik is one of the world's top economists, well known for his original and prescient analyses of globalization and economic development. His ideas on improving national and global economic policies-in the fields of trade, industry, finance, and growth-have been highly influential among economists and policy makers alike. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called one of the decade's best economics books in Business Week. Rodrik's syndicated monthly columns for the Project Syndicate network are published in scores of newspapers around the world. His blog, "Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization" is widely read and frequently cited in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The Economist. In 2007, he was recognized as the first recipient of the prestigious Albert O. Hirschman award of the Social Science Research Council (New York).

Introduction: Recasting Globalization's Narrative; 1. Of States and Markets: Globalization in History's Mirror; 2. The Rise and Fall of the First Great Globalization; 3. Why Doesn't Everyone Get the Case for Free Trade?; 4. Bretton Woods, GATT, and the WTO: Trade in a Politicized World; 5. Financial Globalization Follies; 6. The Foxes and Hedgehogs of Finance; 7. Poor Countries in a Rich World; 8. Trade Fundamentalism in the Tropics; 9. The Political Trilemma of the World Economy; 10. Is Global Governance Feasible? Is It Desirable?; 11. Designing Capitalism; 12. A Sane Globalization; Afterword: A Bedtime Story for Grown-ups