Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

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by Joseph E. Stiglitz


  spread of, 183, 191–92, 216, 236, 299

  global financial crisis, of 2008, xxxii–xxxiii, xxxvi–xxxvii, xliii, 4, 361, 368

  causes of, 53, 353, 354–55, 367

  G-20’s role in, 363

  globalization and, 10, 341

  short-term thinking and, 86

  Washington Consensus discredited by, 344

  global financial system, reform of, 321–28

  globalization:

  in aftermath of Trump, 375–82

  description of, 107–8

  in developed vs. developing countries, xxix–xxx

  effect on knowledge, 410

  future of, xxxvii–xlv, 75

  governance and, xxiv–xxv, 313–15

  historical context of, xxxi–xxxii, 60–61

  history of, 399

  humanization of, 119, 334–40

  increased risks of, 10–11

  interests and ideology and, 304–11

  international public institutions and, 311–13

  main institutions of, 108

  need for better management of, xxiv, 4–5, 45–50, 303–4, 343–44

  optimistic claims for, xvi, 31, 51

  and overhauling of social system, xliv–xlv

  overselling of, 7–15

  potential benefits of, xix, xxiv, xxxi, 103, 118, 303, 335–36

  poverty exacerbated by, 303, 336

  protests over, xxxii, 101–2, 107, 332

  reasons for controversy of, 102–19

  in service economy, 83, 85, 88–89, 385–87

  taxes and, 38

  themes in discontent with, xxiv–xxx

  transparency and, 315–17

  see also trade

  globalization with compensation, 391

  global power, dispersion of, 58–60

  global reserve system, xxxv–xxxvi, 91, 364, 400

  global rules-based system, 411

  global supply chains, xv, xxxiv, 61, 70, 378

  global tax reform, 362–64

  global warming, 11, 17, 80, 312, 371, 393

  global war on terrorism, xxxii

  gold, 125

  Goldman Sachs, 117

  golf carts, 69

  Google, 85, 383

  Gosplan, 259

  governance, xxiv–xxv, xliv, 76–78, 80, 96, 116–18, 119, 308, 313–15, 343, 362–66, 439

  government:

  economic role of, 109, 111, 118, 150, 151, 169, 181–82, 185, 186, 196, 211, 217, 306–11, 313–15

  IMF’s view of, 180, 211, 285–86

  see also budgets, balancing of

  gradualism, 232–33, 253, 258, 357–59

  in China’s market transition, 273, 274, 276

  in Poland’s market transition, 271, 276, 277, 359–60

  Great Britain, 111, 112n, 136, 157, 173, 220, 267–68, 273, 384, 397, 408

  AIIB supported by, 374

  European Union left by, 4

  railroads in, 352

  Great Depression, xv, 75, 83, 90, 109, 113, 131, 151, 155, 169, 183, 191, 200, 299, 336, 337

  trade war in, 63

  Great Recession, 9, 14, 75, 87, 90, 345, 408, 425

  Greece, 355, 364, 424

  greenfield investments, 152

  greenhouse gases, 17, 312, 393, 399

  Greenspan, Alan, 202, 367

  gross domestic product (GDP), measurement of, 395

  growth strategies, 177

  Guantanamo Bay, 71

  Gucci, 62

  Hague, 382

  “haircuts,” 292

  Harvard University, 111

  Hatch-Waxman Act, 419

  health care, xvii, 16–17

  health issues, 26, 57, 312, 381

  hedge funds, 241

  helium plant, 268

  Hollywood, 82

  Homeland Security Department, U.S., 400–401

  Hong Kong, 186, 187, 370

  Hoover, Herbert, 199, 218

  hot money, 115, 287, 324

  capital market liberalization and, 161, 187

  definition of, 105–6

  effects of sudden withdrawal of, 105–6

  human capital, 345

  Human Development Index (HDI), 398

  human rights, 382

  Hungary, 243, 253, 275, 277, 360

  Hussein, King of Jordan, 172

  hyperinflation, 149, 233–34, 238, 271, 309

  hypocrisy, Western, 104–5, 156–59, 263, 269, 332

  Hyundai, 188

  Ibrahim, Anwar, 216

  ice cream manufacturers, 163

  Iceland, 39, 290, 398

  ideological shifts, 376

  illiteracy, 137

  IMF, see International Monetary Fund

  immigration, 43–45

  effects of, 417–18

  imperfect competition, 11–12

  imperfect information, 348–49

  imperfect risk markets, 349

  incentive compensation schemes, 35

  income, global, 104

  income, measurement of, 395

  income distribution:

  immigration and, 43

  trade and, 43

  income gap, 103–4, 121, 186

  India, xviii, xxx, xxxvi, xlii, 12, 60, 77–78, 106, 137, 158, 188, 192, 218, 363, 370, 373

  desertification in, 393

  growth rate in, 344

  “individual responsibility” system, 272, 275

  Indonesia, 34, 65, 107, 116, 117, 137, 143, 166, 308, 322–23

  in East Asia financial crisis, 183, 187, 190, 191, 205, 209–10, 211–12, 213, 219, 332, 354, 430

  effects of IMF’s policies on, 172

  industrial policies, xxviii–xxix, 425

  inequality, xvii, xviii–xix, xxi, xxii, xliv, 52, 80, 83, 84, 244–46, 360, 366, 386, 387–92, 410, 426, 434

  inflation, 104, 112, 121, 149, 151, 172, 197, 202, 214, 273, 274

  causes of, 124, 227

  Federal Reserve Bank and, 141

  hyper-, 149, 233–34, 238, 271, 309

  IMF’s concern with, 124, 130, 141, 144, 168, 176, 201, 252, 309, 320

  in Russia’s market transition, 233–34, 235, 238, 245, 247–48, 260

  unemployment and, 130–31, 176, 306

  Wall Street’s view of, 262–63

  inflation target, 367

  information, 82, 102–3, 131, 301, 349

  access to, see transparency

  asymmetries of, 179

  imperfect nature of, 169

  information capital, 207

  infrastructure, 345

  institutional infrastructure, 230, 231, 271, 273, 309

  international, 311–13

  insurance, 10, 178

  “intellectual lobbying,” 129

  intellectual property rights (IPR), xxi, 4, 40–43, 81, 106, 333, 396, 416, 417

  and immigration, 418

  interest rates, 62, 91, 131, 136, 139, 153, 213, 291–92, 296, 327, 352–53, 425

  in East Asia financial crisis, 187, 189–90, 191, 198, 202–6, 208, 220, 221, 224, 354

  effects of raising of, 110–11, 115, 132, 150, 155, 161, 176, 178–79, 191, 198, 202–6, 212, 431–32

  market determination of, 128, 161

  Russia’s market transition and, 237, 238–39, 240, 247–48

  intergovernmental institutions, 108

  International Labor Organization (ILO), 108

  international landmines treaty (1997), 103

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), xxviii, xxxvi, 96, 101, 108, 119, 137, 250, 270, 284–302, 312, 331–32, 335, 345, 348, 362, 363, 424

  accountability of client nations to, 127, 320–21

  alternatives to programs of, 133–36, 181–82, 210, 215–19

  annual consultations conducted by, 144

  “bail-in” strategy of, 292–94

  bankruptcy and, 290–92, 297–98, 325, 438

  “before” and “after,” 191

  Botswana and, 134

  call for overhaul of, 183

  cap
ital controls recommended by, 347

  colonial attitude of, 137

  conditions imposed by, see conditionality

  consultations within client countries recommended for, 145

  contagion and, 288

  control of, 110, 116–18

  creation of, 371, 373

  developing countries’ disregard for, 134, 190, 298

  in East Asia financial crisis, xxxv, 183–84, 185, 186–87, 189–91, 192–224, 298–302, 310, 318, 354, 355, 424, 431

  ESAF program of, 124

  Ethiopia and, 122–30, 138

  exchange rates and, 286–88, 290–92, 298

  explaining mistakes of, 221–22

  financial community’s interests served by, 222, 296, 303–5, 318

  global financial system reform and, 321–28

  governance and, 313, 314

  governance of, 365–66

  government role as viewed by, 180

  headquarters of, 120

  ill effects brought by policies of, 136, 138, 150, 155, 165, 170, 172, 175, 183, 192–97, 213–21

  inequality attacked by, 366

  lack of transparency of, 129, 147–48, 315–17, 322, 438

  in Latin American debt crisis, 353

  as “lender of last resort,” 294–95, 438

  market fundamentalist ideology of, 110–11, 114, 128, 132, 150, 151, 155, 160, 162, 167–68, 179, 226, 274, 277, 285–86, 304, 309, 318, 319

  mission of, 109–11, 115, 120–21, 138, 144, 201–2, 284–85, 292–93, 304, 321

  narrowing the focus of, 320–21

  new agenda of, 295–302

  “one-size-fits-all” approach of, 112, 131, 143–44

  origin of, 109

  politics and, 257

  poverty exacerbated by, 113, 115, 116, 132, 170, 180

  priorities and strategies of, 175–80

  reforms at, 345, 367–68

  relationship of client countries to, 132, 137–48

  “resident representatives” of, 120–21

  response to Globalization and Its Discontents by, 347

  revolving doors in, 296

  Russia’s market transition and, 226, 227, 232, 235–42, 247, 252, 255–56, 257, 258, 259, 260–61, 274, 275, 278, 279–80, 281, 283, 360

  self-image of, 318–19

  Special Drawing Rights and, 331

  timing of programs of, see sequencing; targets

  title of client nations’ representatives to, 147

  title of head of, 137

  trade deficits and, 289–90, 298

  trade liberalization demanded by, 157–58

  Treasury Department and, 142, 175, 195, 257

  U.S. veto power in, xxv, 110, 195, 205, 314

  VAT recommended by, 346

  viewed as having failed in its mission, 113, 115

  World Bank and, 111–12, 114, 120–21, 146, 147

  International Red Cross, 108

  International Trade Organization, 369

  Internet, 85, 103, 152

  investment, domestic, 61

  investment agreements, 35–38, 71

  invisible hand, 32, 168–69, 351

  Iraq, xxx, xxxiii, 71, 368

  Ireland, 38–39, 362

  “irreversibility,” 212

  Islamic guerrillas, in Philippines, 103

  Italy, 112n, 377, 397

  Jakarta, 166, 204

  Jamaican milk market, 103

  Japan, 61, 62, 112n, 114, 137, 142, 158, 168, 174, 185, 196, 205, 220, 228, 301, 306, 314, 334, 397

  Java, 191

  job creation, xxiv, 50, 61, 92, 153, 155, 167, 175, 181, 186, 326

  private returns vs., 32

  trade and, 8–9, 18, 20

  job destruction, 9–10, 20, 50, 60–61, 92

  and capital flows, 34

  job retraining, 58, 419

  Jordan, 26, 172

  Jubilee movement, 108, 331–32, 338

  jurisprudence, 419

  Justice Department, U.S., Antitrust Division of, 265

  Kantor, Mickey, 158

  Kazakhstan, 252

  Kennedy, John F., 19

  Kenya, 128, 136, 142, 143, 240

  kerosene subsidies, 172

  Keynes, John Maynard, 109, 110, 114, 134, 194, 214, 285–86, 288, 336–37, 388

  KGB, 259

  Kim, Jim Yong, 366

  Kissinger, Henry A., 205

  Klaus, Vaclav, 270

  kleptocracy, 278

  knowledge, 410

  Knowledge for Development, 398

  Köhler, Horst, 322–23

  Kolodko, Grzegorz W., 271, 359–60

  Korea, Republic of (South Korea), 34, 138, 141–42, 150, 153n, 168, 174, 176, 291, 306, 354, 355

  capital market liberalization in, 195–97, 431

  in East Asia financial crisis, 183, 187–88, 191, 198, 200, 203, 210, 211, 213, 219, 220, 223, 224, 298, 299, 301, 430

  economic growth of, 187–88, 195

  Korean War, 187, 188

  Krueger, Ann, 111

  Krugman, Paul, 216

  Kuala Lumpur, 211

  Kuznets, Simon, 174

  labor, cheap, 16–18

  in China, 12, 19

  in Mexico, 19

  labor, movement of, 417

  labor force participation, 83–84

  “labor market flexibility,” 178

  labor unions, 179, 310

  Lagarde, Christine, 366

  laissez-faire, 169

  land reform, 175–76, 177, 181, 229

  “large externalities,” 217, 324

  Latin America, 104, 105, 107, 176, 183, 192, 197–98, 241, 246, 308, 310, 326–27, 344

  debt crisis in, 326–27, 353, 440

  increase in poverty in, 174, 427

  response to economic problems in, 114, 214

  stagnation and recession in, 180

  strengthening ties with Europe and China, 72

  Washington Consensus policies designed for, 149

  see also specific countries

  Latvia, 358–59, 360

  lending, 10

  Lenin, V. I., 228

  Le Pen, Marine, xliv, 3, 49, 50, 420

  leverage, 203, 205

  Lewis, Arthur, 173–74

  Lewis, Steve, 134

  liberalization, 154–62, 351

  of trade, 8, 114, 149, 155–60, 161, 178–79, 186, 195–96, 329, 441

  types of, 154

  see also capital market liberalization

  life expectancy, xvii–xviii, 102, 104

  liquidity, 110, 134, 292–93

  Lithuania, 360

  loans-for-share program, Russian, 250–51, 256, 257, 261, 281, 283

  Long Term Capital Management, 241, 269

  long-term savings, 35

  Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 93

  lumber, 423

  Luxembourg, 38–39

  LuxLeaks, 38–39

  Macau, 38

  Mack, Connie, 141

  macroeconomic externalities, 413

  macroeconomics, 145, 153, 203, 218

  definition of, 112, 124

  IMF’s concern with, 112, 124, 138, 152, 173, 252

  and problems specific to developing countries, 131

  macromanagement, 354–55

  Macron, Emmanuel, xxxvii

  macroshock therapy, 359–60

  macrostability, 186, 351

  Maduro, Nicolás, 81

  mafia capitalism, 225, 252, 266, 278, 289, 309

  Mahathir bin Mohamed, 187, 212–13, 215, 216

  Making Globalization Work (Stiglitz), 393, 406

  Malaysia, 34, 163, 168, 195, 299, 306, 417

  in East Asia financial crisis, 183, 187, 198, 211, 212–13, 215–17, 219

  IMF program avoided by, 215–16, 219

  Manchester, England, 89

  “Manifest Destiny,” 121

  Manufacturers Hanover, 127

  manufacturing, xli, 4, 9, 13, 21, 56–58, 83, 88, 357, 376, 385, 400

  in Ger
many, 407

  market economy, transition to, 112, 113, 180, 270–83, 303, 342, 359–61

  of China, 104, 184, 228–29, 270, 271–74, 276

  of Poland, 243, 247, 270–71, 275, 276, 277, 359–60, 361, 436–37

  of Russia, 104, 225–26, 270, 274, 275, 276, 277, 359–61, 434, 437

  of Taiwan, 229

  see also privatization

  market fundamentalism (free-market ideology), xvi, xl, 112, 153–54, 196, 207, 230, 279, 308, 309, 405

  as IMF ideology, 110–11, 114, 128, 132, 150, 151, 155, 160, 162, 167–68, 179, 226, 274, 277, 285–86, 304, 309, 318, 319

  invisible hand and, 168–69

  replacement analysis for, 338

  and trade agreements, 49

  2008 crisis caused by, 353, 354

  market imperfections, 110, 111, 114, 131, 151, 169, 285, 287, 294, 307

  marketing boards, 170–71

  market power, concentration of, 85

  market reform, Bolshevik approach to, 253–56

  markets, marketplace, 336

  essential ingredients of, 230–31

  government’s role in, 109, 111, 118, 150, 151, 169, 181–82, 185, 186, 196, 211, 217, 306–11, 313–15

  models of, 306

  “overshooting” by, 287

  Marx, Karl, 306

  Marxism, 226, 279

  Mau-Mau revolt, 136

  McNamara, Robert, 111

  media power, 255–56

  Mengistu Haile Mariam, 122, 123, 428

  mercantilism, 16

  Mercedes, 244–45

  Mexico, xxxiii, xxxiv, 11, 26, 62, 66, 73, 102, 181, 189, 212, 214, 374, 375, 411, 430, 431

  cheap labor in, 19

  immigration from, 43

  roads in, 352

  tariffs of, 23–24, 55

  trade surplus with U.S., 70

  Trump’s proposed wall with, 4

  Trump’s threat of tariffs against, 371

  Walmart in, 406

  Michigan, 13

  Microsoft, 43, 85

  middle class, 255

  in China, xviii, xlii

  erosion of, 4, 179, 191, 225, 245, 282

  Middle East, 26, 172, 365

  Milanović, Branko, xviii, 359, 396

  military spending, 125, 233

  milk imports, 103

  minimum wage, 37

  mining concessions, 167

  Miyazawa Initiative, 205

  Mobile, Ala., 418

  Moldova, 243, 258

  monetary policy, 8, 9, 109, 112, 114, 115

  monopolies, 152, 170, 190, 232, 384

  higher prices and, 163–64

  Montreal Protocol (1987), 312

  Morocco, 26, 117, 150–51

  mortality rates, xvii

  mortgages, 34, 151

  Moscow, 244, 248, 260

  multilateralism, 78

  multinational corporations, 4, 11, 18, 19–20, 21, 26, 27, 28–29, 31, 74, 95, 164, 362, 392

  rule of law and, 80

  multipolarization, 379, 389–90

  Museveni, Yoweri, 136, 171

 

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