The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle

by Harold James

Book Overview

Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization - above all in the Great Depression - to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel examination of the financial panics of 1929 and 1931 as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035844
• ISBN13: 9780674035843
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.7" x 7.4"