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Globalization and Its Discontents

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2016
  • First published 2002

economics politics

Stiglitz draws on his time at the World Bank to criticise how the IMF handled crises in Asia, Russia and elsewhere.   He argues that rigid market-first policies hurt poor countries.