An edition of Understanding Globalization (1997)
Understanding globalization
the social consequences of political, economic, and environmental change
By Robert K. Schaeffer
Publish Date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Language
eng
Pages
329
Description:
Contents: Change and the modern world -- The world after World War II -- Dollar devaluations -- Fighting inflation -- Debt and taxes in the Third World -- Debt and taxes in the United States -- Stock market and job loss -- Technology, food, and hunger -- Free trade agreements -- Population growth -- Global climate change -- Dictatorship and democracy -- The spread of separatism -- Mafias and the global drug trade.
subjects: World politics, Social history, Economic history, Globalization, Global environmental change, Environmental indicators, Social change, Histoire sociale, Changement économique, 1950-1999, Wirtschaft, Economische verandering, Politique mondiale, Xã hội học, Politieke verandering, Politik, Mondialisation, Impact social, Umwelt, Globalisierung, Milieuverandering, Changement global (Environnement), Internationalisatie, Umweltveranderung, Sozialstruktur, Sozialpolitik, Economic history, 1945-, World politics, 1945-, United states, foreign relations