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Globalization for One-Stop Shoppers. A Compact but Unconvincing Case. Another World Economic Outlook Is Possible?.
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Globalization for One-Stop Shoppers Jagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, 304 pp., $28 (cloth). THE NUMBER of books on dieting and weight loss still outnumber those on globalization, but there is no shortage of the latter. So why bother with yet another book on globalization? Jagdish Bhagwati's latest book, In Defense of Globalization, merits attention for several reasons. First, the author is one of the world's most distinguished and creative international economists. Unlike many other globalization authors, Bhagwati is not an ideologue but revels in sifting through arguments and ideas. He accentuates the positive in this spirited defense of globalization, but he is more of an intelligent te...
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