What Do We Know About Globalization?
Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution
1. Edition August 2007
384 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty &
Income Distribution examines the two fundamental arguments that
are often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality
and that it increases poverty.
* * A lively and accessible argument about the impact and
consequences of globalization from a leading figure in economics -
Dehesa is Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a
member of the Group of Thirty
* Demonstrates the ways in which wealthy nations and developing
countries alike have failed to implement changes that would result
in a reversal of these social ills
* Dispels the notion of the so-called 'victim of globalization',
demonstrating how, despite popular belief, acceleration of
globalization actually stands to reduce the levels of poverty and
inequality worldwide
* Asks whether increased technological, economic, and cultural
change can save us from international income inequality, and by
extension, further violence, terrorism and war
Chapter I Latin and Indo-European 1
Chapter II The Languages of Italy 37
Chapter III The Background to Standardization 77
Chapter IV 'Old' Latin and its Varieties in the
Period c.400-150 BC 90
Chapter V The Road to Standardization: Roman Latin of the Third
and Second Centuries BC 130
Chapter VI Elite Latin in the Late Republic and Early Empire
183
Chapter VII Sub-Elite Latin in the Empire 229
Chapter VIII Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond 265
Glossary 305
Appendix: The International Phonetic Alphabet 316
Bibliography of Reference and Other Works 317
Index 319
for another polemic about globalization and its problems. Do read
this book if you want to better understand how to extend
globalization's benefits to countries and people that are not
benefiting as much as they could."
From the Foreword by Stanley Fischer
"Guillermo de la Dehesa masterfully synthesizes a wide
universe of empirical findings and conceptual reasoning to shed
much-needed light - not heat - on the big issues of
globalization."
Jeffrey Frankel, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
"Extended literature review ... approach, supplemented
generously by the author's own careful analysis, makes the
essays both substantial and accessible to a wider audience."
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