One World, Ready or Not (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Greider
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Current affairs and economics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Economics
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Developing countries, Economics, Capitalism, Economic conditions, Industrialization, Commerce, Finance, Economic policy, Markets
One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism explores how the spread of market capitalism is creating a single global marketplace. Diffusion of ideas and introduction of concepts into new places can offer new possibilities, but as William Greider points out, they can also bring problems. He begins with an examination of the worldwide system of production, then shows how it is abetted by finance capital, and finally examines the changes in social reality that result from the spread of capitalism.
Specialists in economic development often argue (though the...
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