Globalization

Without globalization, I'd literally not exist, but I realize others may not find that a compelling argument in its favor.

Tyler Cowen, Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures
J. Bradford DeLong, "'Globalization' and 'Neoliberalism'"
Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital
Paul Krugman
- Pop Internationalism [Review: Krugman Discoveries Ideology]
- "Trade and inequality, revisited", vox.eu, 15 June 2007
Tom Nairn, America: Enemy of Globalization
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Yahya Sadowski, The Myth of Global Chaos
Joseph Stiglitz
Alfredo G. A. Valladao, The Twenty-First Century Will Be American
Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny [But not the last third or so, about the Meaning of Life]

Alice H. Amsden
- The Rise of "the Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrialization Economies
- Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell [Blurb]
Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy [Blurb, ch. 1]
Vilna Francine Bashi, Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World [Blurb]
Jagdish Bhaghwati
- Free Trade Today
- In Defense of Globalization
- A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy
- The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization
- The World Trading System at Risk
Clifford Bob, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Acticvism [From the blurb: "How do a few Third World political movements become global causes celebres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from selfless nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Instead, they face a Darwinian struggle for scarce resources where support goes to the savviest, not the neediest. Examining Mexico's Zapatista rebels and Nigeria's Ogoni ethnic group, the book draws critical conclusions about social movements, NGOs, and 'global civil society'."]
Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein (eds.), Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution [Blurb]
Reuven Brenner, Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets
Lea Brilmayer, American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World
Stephen G. Brooks, Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict [Blurb, ch. 1]
Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability [Review in Salon]
Daniel Cohen, Globalization and Its Enemies [Blurb]
Paul Collier and David Dollar (writing as "the World Bank"), Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy
Jane L. Collins, Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry [Blurb]
Nicole Constable, Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages [Blurb]
Kristin Dawkins, Global Governance: The Battle Over Planetary Power
Doremus, Keller, Pauly, and Reich, The Myth of the Global Corporation [Blurb]
Mark R. Duffield, Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security
Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution [Blurb]
Graham Dunkley, The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round, and Globalism
Barry Eichengreen, Capital Flows and Crises
Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon H. Hanson, "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm", The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (2005): 729--761
Mark Findlay, The Globalization of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context
Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China [Blurb, ch. 1]
Geoffrey Garrett, Partisan Politics in the Global Economy [1998. Argues that the state is not whithering away.]
Robert Gilpin and Jean M. Gilpin, Global Political Economy
Bernard Gordon, America's Trade Folly: Turning Economic Leadership Into Stategic Weakness
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Olivier Jeanne, "The Elusive Benefits from International Financial Integration", Review of Economic Studies forthcoming [Website with links to PDFs, slides, etc. Abstract: "Standard theoretical arguments tell us that countries with relatively little capital benefit from financial integration as foreign capital flows in and speeds up the process of convergence. We show in a calibrated neoclassical model that conventionally measured welfare gains from this type of convergence appear relatively limited for the typical emerging market country. The welfare gain from switching from financial autarky to perfect capital mobility is roughly equivalent to a one percent permanent increase in domestic consumption for the typical non-OECD country. This is negligible relative to the welfare gain from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries."]
Lloyd Gruber, Ruling the World: Power Politics and the Rise of Supranational Institutions
Mauro F. Guillen, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain
Edward M. Graham and C. Fred Bergsten, Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises
Rodney Bruce Hall and Thomas J. Biersteker, The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance
Ann Harrison (ed.), Globalization and Poverty [blurb]
David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
David Held et al., Global Transformations
Douglas Irwin
- Against the Tide
- Free Trade Under Fire
Nathan M. Jensen, Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment [Blurb, ch. 1]
Ethan B. Kapstein
- Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State
- Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field
Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery [Globalization + incomplete sexual revolution = utter horror. Blurb]
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics ["Examines the networks of activists that operate across national borders, including such alliances as anti-slavery movements and woman suffrage campaigns in the past and today's transnational activism in human rights and environmental politics."]
John Kerry, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security
Krugman, Rethinking International Trade
Richard F. Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization [online]
Mark Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [Blurb, ch. 1]
Peggy Levitt, The Transnational Villagers
David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell (eds.), The Business of Global Environmental Governance ["theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies"]
Daniel Litvin, Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility
William H. Marling, How American Is Globalization? [Blurb]
Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer and Mathias Thoenig, "Make Trade Not War?" [Analysis of correlations between trade treaties and war-making, finding that bilateral trade agreements make countries less likely to go to war with each other, but countries which are more open to trade globally are more likely to go to war in general. I have not had a chance to read this in detail, but the obvious problem, it seems to me, is that their regression includes the United States of America as just another country, when it is (1) a leader in pushing for trade openness and (2) singularly uninhibited about using its military power, which is greater than that of any other country in the world. A quick scan of their paper doesn't show any attempt to see if one of their observations (e.g., the US) was an outlier and so unduly influencing the results, particularly the last one. Still, definitely serious work and worth reading in detail. PDF preprint; authors' self-presentation.]
Sergei Maslov, "Measures of globalization based on cross-correlations of world financial indices," cond-mat/0103397
Arthur P. J. Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy [Blurb]
Carolyn Nordstrom
- Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century [blurb]
- Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World [Blurb]
Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams, Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
Robert C. Paehlke, Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy [blurb]
Ronen Palan, The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires [Blurb]
Heikki Patomaki, Democratizing Globalization: The Leverage of the Tobin Tax
Louis M. Pauly, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
James Petras and Morris Morley, Empire or Republic? American Global Power and Domestic Decay
Jedediah Purdy, Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World
Timothy Reiss, Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange
Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
James Rosenau, Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization
Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of a New World Order
Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo [blurb]
Robert K. Schaeffer, Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change
Jan Aart Scholte and Albrecht Schnabel (eds.), Civil Society and Global Finance
Gerhard Schurz, "Clash of Civilizations? An Evolution-Theoretic and Empirical Investigation of Huntington's Theses" [PDF preprint]
M. Angeles Serrano and Marian Boguna, "Topology of the World Trade Web," cond-mat/0301015
Zmarak Shalizi, Kenneth Chomitz, Christian Eigen-Zucchi, Gunnar Eskeland, Swati Ghosh, Christine, Linda Likar and Robert Schneider (writing as "the World Bank"), Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World: Transforming Institutions, Growth, and Quality of Life
Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 [blurb]
Leslie Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class
Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order [Blurb, with link to full text of introduction]
George Soros, On Globalization
Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents
Susan Strange
- The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy [Blurb]
- Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments
Irena Tzkina, Karan Danthi and Daniel N. Rockmore, "Evolution of community structure in the world trade web", arxiv:0709.2630
Oscar Ugarteche, The False Dilemma: Globalization --- Opportunity or Threat?
John Urry, Sociology beyond Societies
W. Warren Wagar, The City of Man: Prophecies of a World Civilization in Twentieth-Century Thought
Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State

Notebooks

Globalization