What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution

Guillermo de la Dehesa

John Wiley & Sons, Feb 4, 2009 - Political Science - 384 pages

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

Contents

• Chapter I Latin and IndoEuropean: 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 c400150 BC: 90
• Roman Latin of the Third and Second Centuries BC: 130
• Chapter VI Elite Latin in the Late Republic and Early Empire: 183
• Chapter VII SubElite Latin in the Empire: 229
• Chapter VIII Latin in Late Antiquity and Beyond: 265
• Glossary: 305
• The International Phonetic Alphabet revised to 2005: 316
• Bibliography of Reference and Other Works: 317
• Index: 319

About the author

Guillermo de la Dehesa is the Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He spent twenty years in various Spanish governmental positions from the late 1960s through to the 1980s. Since leaving the public sector he has held a number of chairman and chief executive positions in the private sector; he is currently Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Europe, Independent Director of the Santander Banking Group and of Aviva plc, and Chairman of the Instituto de Empresa Business School. He is a member of the “Group of Thirty,” a non-profit, independent consultative group which counts luminaries such as Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England), Larry Summers (former President of Harvard), and Paul Krugman among its ranks. Guillermo de la Dehesa is also the author of Winners and Losers in Globalization (Blackwell, 2006).

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution
• Author: Guillermo de la Dehesa
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
• ISBN: 0470765895, 9780470765890
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Globalization