American Decades
"A Fair Deal for the World"
Book review
By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Date: May 23, 2002
Source: Stiglitz, Joseph E. "A Fair Deal for the World." New York Review of Books 49, no. 9, May 23, 2002.
About the Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He has served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and vice president of the World Bank. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents (2002).
Introduction
In his review of internationally known investor and philanthropist George Soros' On Globalization, economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses the complexities of the debate over globalization. Economists have long argued that the modern economic ideas and institutions of capitalism have expanded all over the world. In 1944, at the end of World War II (1939–1945), the victorious Allied powers...
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1990's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- "Industry Employment and the 1990–91 Recession"
- Preamble to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon
- President Clinton's State of the Union Address January 23, 1996
- "WorldCom Together"
- "Life on the Internet: Timeline"
- "The New Demon"
- The New Economy Index: Understanding America's Economic Transformation
- "Bull Market Keynesianism"
- "Job Growth in the 1990s: A Retrospect"
- "A Fair Deal for the World"
- "Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1990–1999"
- "Economy in Perspective: Consumer Price Index, 1961–2002"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
