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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787517003321

Autore

Hart-Landsberg Martin

Titolo

Capitalist globalization : consequences, resistance, and alternatives / / by Martin Hart-Landsberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Monthly Review Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-58367-354-7

1-58367-355-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages.)

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

market economy

economic development

transnational corporation

globalisation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Capitalist globalization -- part II. The neoliberal project and resistance -- part III. Alternatives to capitalist globalization.

Sommario/riassunto

""Globalization,"" surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business leaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as the natural result of economic development, and a beneficial one at that. But, as noted economist Martin Hart-Landsberg argues, this perception does not match the reality of globalization. The rise of transnational corporations and their global production chains was the result of