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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814030503321

Autore

James Harold <1956->

Titolo

The creation and destruction of value [[electronic resource] ] : the globalization cycle / / Harold James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-26470-3

0-674-05405-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Globalization - Economic aspects

Financial crises

International economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-312) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The end of globalization : a millennial perspective -- Using history : 1929 or 1931? -- Crash 2008 : are we in 1929 or 1931? -- The extent and limit of the financial revolution -- The importance of power politics -- Uncertainty of values.

Sommario/riassunto

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization - above all in the Great Depression - to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. The book shows the looming psychological and material consequences of an interconnected world for people and the institutions they create.