Globalization / [print]
Donald J. Boudreaux.
- Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, (c)2008.
- xiv, 162 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Greenwood guides to business and economics, 1559-2367 .
- Greenwood guides to business and economics. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Globalization : yesterday and today -- Globalization and material prosperity : what's at stake? -- Why people trade: the economics case for free trade -- Trade, jobs, and wages -- Alleged exceptions to the case for free trade -- The balance of trade and trade deficits -- The institutions of globalization -- Conclusion.
The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. Over the past fifty years, international business has evolved from the realm of the largest multinational corporations to the base scenario; every business and every citizen who participates in economic activity.
Boudreaux, D. J. (2008). Globalization. Greenwood.
Donald J. Boudreaux served as chairman of the department of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, from 2001 to 2009. He runs a blog, www.CafeHayek.com, with Russ Roberts and has lectured in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe. He is the author of Globalization (2008), and his writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, Ideas on Liberty, the Washington Times, the Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, and several scholarly journals. Before chairing the economics department at George Mason, Boudreaux was president of the Foundation for Economic Education; associate professor of legal studies and Economics at Clemson University, and assistant professor of economics at George Mason University.