Globalization

Last update: 07 Jul 2026 22:49
First version: Before 13 March 1995

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Without globalization, I'd literally not exist, but I realize others may not find that a compelling argument in its favor.

See also:
• Economics
• World History

Recommended:
• Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong, The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
• Tyler Cowen, Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures
• J. Bradford DeLong, "'Globalization' and 'Neoliberalism'"
• Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital
• Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
• Paul Krugman
  • Pop Internationalism [Review: Krugman Discoveries Ideology]
  • "Trade and inequality, revisited", vox.eu, 15 June 2007
• Mark Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
• Tom Nairn, America: Enemy of Globalization
• Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
• Yahya Sadowski, The Myth of Global Chaos
• Joseph Stiglitz
  • Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor
  • Knowledge as a Global Public Good
  • Must Financial Crises Be This Frequent and This Painful?
  • Two Principles for the Next Round
• Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
• Alfredo G. A. Valladao, The Twenty-First Century Will Be American
• Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny [But not the last third or so, about the Meaning of Life]

To read:
• Alice H. Amsden
  • The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies
  • Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
• Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy
• Vilna Francine Bashi, Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World
• Ross Bassett, The Technological Indian
• Jagdish Bhaghwati
  • Free Trade Today
  • In Defense of Globalization
  • A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
  • The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization
  • The World Trading System at Risk
• Clifford Bob, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Acticvism ["How do a few Third World political movements become global causes celebres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from selfless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Instead, they face a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources where support goes to the savviest, not the neediest. Examining Mexico's Zapatista rebels and Nigeria's Ogoni ethnic group, the book draws critical conclusions about social movements, NGOs, and 'global civil society'."]
• Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein (eds.), Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution
• Reuven Brenner, Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets
• Lea Brilmayer, American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World
• Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
• Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli, The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy
• Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability [Review in Salon]
• Daniel Cohen, Globalization and Its Enemies
• Paul Collier and David Dollar (writing as "the World Bank"), Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy
• Jane L. Collins, Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
• Nicole Constable, Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" MarriagesKristin Dawkins, Global Governance: The Battle Over Planetary Power
• Doremus, Keller, Pauly, and Reich, The Myth of the Global Corporation
• Mark R. Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security
• Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution
• Graham Dunkley, The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round, and Globalism
• Barry Eichengreen, Capital Flows and Crises
• Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson, "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 729--761
• Mark Findlay, The Globalization of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context
• Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China
• Geoffrey Garrett, Partisan Politics in the Global Economy [1998. Argues that the state is not whithering away.]
• Robert Gilpin and Jean M. Gilpin, Global Political Economy
• Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan, The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
• Bernard Gordon, America's Trade Folly: Turning Economic Leadership Into Stategic Weakness
• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Olivier Jeanne, "The Elusive Benefits from International Financial Integration", Review of Economic Studies forthcoming [Website with links to PDFs, slides, etc. Abstract: "Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this type of convergence appear relatively limited for the typical emerging market country. The welfare gain from switching from financial autarky to perfect capital mobility is roughly equivalent to a one percent permanent increase in domestic consumption for the typical non-OECD country. This is negligible relative to the welfare gain from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries."]
• Lloyd Gruber, Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions
• Mauro F. Guillen, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain
• Edward M. Graham and C. Fred Bergsten, Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises
• Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance
• Ann Harrison (ed.), Globalization and Poverty
• David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
• David Held et al., Global Transformations
• Douglas Irwin
  • Against the Tide
  • Free Trade Under Fire
• Justin Jennings, Globalizations and the Ancient World
• Nathan M. Jensen, Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment
• Ethan B. Kapstein
  • Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State
  • Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field
• Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery [Globalization + incomplete sexual revolution = utter horror]
• Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics ["Examines the networks of activists that operate across national borders, including such alliances as anti-slavery movements and woman suffrage campaigns in the past and today's transnational activism in human rights and environmental politics."]
• John Kerry, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
• Krugman, Rethinking International Trade
• Richard F. Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization [online]
• Marc Levinson, Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
• Peggy Levitt, The Transnational Villagers
• David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell (eds.), The Business of Global Environmental Governance ["theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies"]
• Daniel Litvin, Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility
• William H. Marling, How American Is Globalization?
• Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer and Mathias Thoenig, "Make Trade Not War?" [Analysis of correlations between trade treaties and war-making, finding that bilateral trade agreements make countries less likely to go to war with each other, but countries which are more open to trade globally are more likely to go to war in general. I have not had a chance to read this in detail, but the obvious problem, it seems to me, is that their regression includes the United States of America as just another country, when it is (1) a leader in pushing for trade openness and (2) singularly uninhibited about using its military power, which is greater than that of any other country in the world. A quick scan of their paper doesn't show any attempt to see if one of their observations (e.g., the US) was an outlier and so unduly influencing the results, particularly the last one. Still, definitely serious work and worth reading in detail. PDF preprint; authors' self-presentation.]
• Sergei Maslov, "Measures of globalization based on cross-correlations of world financial indices," cond-mat/0103397
• Arthur P. J. Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy
• Shehzad Nadeem, Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing Is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves
• Carolyn Nordstrom
  • Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
  • Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
• Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams, Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
• Robert C. Paehlke, Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy
• Ronen Palan, The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
• Heikki Patomaki, Democratizing Globalization: The Leverage of the Tobin Tax
• Louis M. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
• James Petras and Morris Morley, Empire or Republic? American Global Power and Domestic Decay
• Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman, Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World
• Jedediah Purdy, Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World
• Timothy Reiss, Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange
• Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
• James Rosenau, Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization
• Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of a New World Order
• Saskia Sassen
  • The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
  • Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
• Robert K. Schaeffer, Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change
• Jan Aart Scholte and Albrecht Schnabel (eds.), Civil Society and Global Finance
• Gerhard Schurz, "Clash of Civilizations? An Evolution-Theoretic and Empirical Investigation of Huntington's Theses" [PDF preprint]
• M. Angeles Serrano and Marian Boguna, "Topology of the World Trade Web," cond-mat/0301015
• Zmarak Shalizi, Kenneth Chomitz, Christian Eigen-Zucchi, Gunnar Eskeland, Swati Ghosh, Christine, Linda Likar and Robert Schneider (writing as "the World Bank"), Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
• Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870
• Leslie Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order
• Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents
• Susan Strange
  • The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy
  • Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments
• Peter Temin & David Vines, The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It
• Irena Tzkina, Karan Danthi and Daniel N. Rockmore, "Evolution of community structure in the world trade web", arxiv:0709.2630
• Oscar Ugarteche, The False Dilemma: Globalization --- Opportunity or Threat?
• John Urry, Sociology beyond Societies
• W. Warren Wagar, The City of Man: Prophecies of a World Civilization in Twentieth-Century Thought
• Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State