Globalization and progressive economic policy/ edited by Dean Baker, Gerald Epstein and Robert Pollin - New York: Cambridge, 2000. - xv, 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

1. Introduction

I The IMF, the World Bank, and neo-liberalism
2. The revival of the liberal creed: the IMF, the World Bank and inequality in a globalized economy
3. India: dirigisme, structural adjustment and the radical alternative

II Foreign direct investment, globalization, and neo-liberalism
4. Globalisation, transnational corporations, and economic development: can the developing countries pursue strategic industrial policy in a globalising world economy?
5. Multinational corporations in the neo-liberal regime

III Globalization of finance
6. Implications of globalization for macroeconomic theory and policy in developing countries
7. Asia and the crisis of financial globalization
8. Globalization and financial systems: policies for the new environment
9. Housing finance in the age of globalization: from social housing to life cycle risk

IV Trade, wages and the environment: North and South
10. Openness and equity: regulating labor market outcomes in a globalized economy
11. Integration and income distribution under the North American Free Trade Agreement: the experience of Mexico
12. Malthus redux? Globalization and the environment

V Migration of people in a global economy
13. Freedom to move in the age of globalization
14. Immigration, inequality and policy alternatives
15. Notes on international migration suggested by the Indian experience

VI Globalization and macroeconomic policy
16. The NAIRU: is it a real constraint
17. Internal and external constraints on egalitarian policies
18. The effects of globalization on policy formation in South Africa 19. Can domestic expansionary policies succeed in a globally integrated environment? A consideration of alternatives

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