{"product_id":"capitalist-globalization-consequences-resistance-and-alternatives-9781583673539","title":"Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin Hart-Landsberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Monthly Review Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Monthly Review Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Globalization,\" surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords\u003cbr\u003eof recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically\u003cbr\u003econsidered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market\u003cbr\u003eforces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business\u003cbr\u003eleaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as the\u003cbr\u003enatural result of economic development, and a beneficial one at\u003cbr\u003ethat. But, as noted economist Martin Hart-Landsberg argues, this\u003cbr\u003eperception does not match the reality of globalization. The rise of\u003cbr\u003etransnational corporations and their global production chains was\u003cbr\u003ethe result of intentional and political acts, decisions made at the\u003cbr\u003ehighest levels of power. Their aim - to increase profits by seeking\u003cbr\u003ethe cheapest sources of labor and raw materials - was facilitated\u003cbr\u003ethrough policy-making at the national and international levels, and\u003cbr\u003ewas largely successful. But workers in every nation have paid the\u003cbr\u003ecosts, in the form of increased inequality and poverty, the destruction\u003cbr\u003eof social welfare provisions and labor unions, and an erratic\u003cbr\u003eglobal economy prone to bubbles, busts, and crises.\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the historical record of globalization and restores\u003cbr\u003eagency to the capitalists, policy-makers, and politicians who\u003cbr\u003eworked to craft a regime of world-wide exploitation. It demolishes\u003cbr\u003etheir neoliberal ideology - already on shaky ground after the 2008\u003cbr\u003efinancial crisis - and picks apart the record of trade agreements\u003cbr\u003elike NAFTA and institutions like the WTO. But, crucially, Hart-\u003cbr\u003eLandsberg also discusses alternatives to capitalist globalization, \u003cbr\u003elooking to examples such as South America's Bolivarian Alliance\u003cbr\u003efor the Americas (ALBA) for clues on how to build an international\u003cbr\u003eeconomy based on solidarity, social development, and shared prosperity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monthly Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47596937052311,"sku":"9781583673539","price":9039.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781583673539.webp?v=1774995688","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/capitalist-globalization-consequences-resistance-and-alternatives-9781583673539","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}