Order 563530: Read Instructions

Assignment

(3-4 pages + references) During the first unit we looked at the rise and fall of political ideologies, strategies for economic development, the growing influence of multinational corporations, advances in technology, and the trend toward liberal free-market globalization. Of all of these factors, which do you feel, for better or for worse, has had the biggest impact on humanity over the last century? Why?

Text/Readings

This is a list of texts or references that may be used

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

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

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

· Chapter 13, “The Age of Globalization”

· Chapter 14, “The Balance of Confidence,”

· Free Trade Under Fire by Douglas Irwin, Princeton University Press, 2003.

· Chapter 1, “The United States in a New Global Economy?”

· 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.”