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Globalization and Its Discontents
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From: Nance 
It's out in French too 
http://www.sbgo.com/Papers/Globalization%20and%20Its%20Discontents.htm 

Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz (W.W. Norton 
      Company: Washington, DC, 2002)

     Book Description: 
      This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed 
      doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel 
      Prize in Economics. Renowned academic economist Joseph E. Stiglitz served 
      seven years in Washington, as chairman of President Clinton's Council of 
      Economic Advisers and as chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, 
      Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand, 
      and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts 
      the interests of its "largest shareholder," the United States, above those 
      of the poorer nations it was designed to serve. This insider's account of 
      global economic policy will be hailed for its courage and honesty. Those 
      seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of 
      protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this 
      book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, 
      Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to 
      come.

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