Globalization

Unit 1: Historical and Contemporary Overview of Globalization

Readings

Please complete these readings during your study of Unit 1.

Course web site e-readings

These may be accessed at:
http://www.uncg.edu/bae/people/sarbaum/webpage/mals620a/index.htm
User: mals620
Password: year0405

“Globalization and its Critics,” The Economist Magazine, September 27, 2001.

“Three Cheers for Global Capitalism,” John Norberg, The American Enterprise, June 2004.

E-reserve

Chapter 13, “The Age of Globalization,” and Chapter 14, “The Balance of Confidence,”

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, Simon and Schuster Press, 2002.

Purchased texts

PBS video production of The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy.
This may be purchased at : (DVD/VHS (required) and book (optional))
Or you can watch this for free (WARNING: you will be downloading roughly 6 hours of video clips via the
PBS Commanding Heights website.)

Chapter 1, “The United States in a New Global Economy?” Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas Irwin, Princeton University Press, 2003.

From Real World Globalization, 8th Ed., edited by the Dollars and Sense Collective, 2004:

Chapter 1, Article 1, “A Short History of Neoliberalism.”
Chapter 1, Article 2, “Know-Nothings and Know-It-Alls: What’s Wrong with the Hype of Globalization.”
Chapter 4, Article 16, “The ABC’s of the Global Economy.”

Optional purchased books and/or DVD/VHS

The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, Simon and Schuster Press, 2002. This may be purchased a (DVD/VHS (required) and book (optional)) .

Note: Everyone should watch the video (via the PBS website or by purchasing the video, which is highly recommended.) Everyone should read Ch. 13 and 14 of the book (which will be available on my website/e-reserve—see above). The rest of the book is totally optional; it’s very long and far too detailed for you to read it in its entirety as a course requirement.