SUMMARY - The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.


*As you read this summary, you will learn that the paradox of globalization is that a society cannot have political democracy, a sovereign nation-state and globalized markets all at once.


*You will also learn that : the economic growth of the Glorious Thirty is due to the Bretton Woods system; democracies have the right to guard against the excesses of economic globalization; the gold standard regime before the First World War was the first economic globalization; the two oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 were directly responsible for the end of the Bretton Woods system; the petrodollars caused the intensification of international capital flows; the maintenance of national sovereignty is incompatible with the pursuit of economic globalization.


*In "The Globalization Paradox", Dani Rodrik indulges in nothing less than a general theorization of globalization. Economic development, democracy, and the role of the state are among the topics discussed. The author takes up the currently most debated theme, that of globalization, and eloquently broadens the debate on the limits of global economic cooperation. A work that Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, would certainly not have disavowed ... 


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