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The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. But the truth of the matter, writes Daniel Cohen in this provocative account, may be the reverse. Globalization, thanks to the speed of twenty-first-century communications, shows people a world of material prosperity that they do want--a vivid world of promises that have yet to be fulfilled. For the most impoverished developing nations, globalization remains only an elusive image, a fleeting mirage. Never before, Cohen says, have the means of communication--the media--created such a global consciousness, and never have economic forces lagged so far behind expectations.
Today's globalization, Cohen argues, is the third act in a history that began with the Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century and continued with Great Britain's nineteenth-century empire of free trade. In the nineteenth century, as in the twenty-first, a revolution in transportation and communication did not promote widespread wealth but favored polarization. India, a part of the British empire, was just as poor in 1913 as it was in 1820. Will today's information economy do better in disseminating wealth than the telegraph did two centuries ago? Presumably yes, if one gauges the outcome from China's perspective; surely not, if Africa's experience is a guide. At any rate, poor countries require much effort and investment to become players in the global game. The view that technologies and world trade bring wealth by themselves is no more true today than it was two centuries ago.
We should not, Cohen writes, consider globalization as an accomplished fact. It is because of what has yet to happen--the unfulfilled promises of prosperity--that globalization has so many enemies in the contemporary world. For the poorest countries of the world, the problem is not so much that they are exploited by globalization as that they are forgotten and excluded.
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Globalization has its enemies - but the enemies are neither obvious nor a united front.......2006-09-04
I have liked Daniel Cohen's work since 1996 when I first read his paper "Tests of the `convergence hypothesis': some further results" published in the Journal of Economic Growth (September). So, I came to the current book with a positive preconception - and I am glad to say I was not disappointed.
The provocative title of the book is misleading to the extent it conveys a black and white message: globalization on one side; its enemies on the other. Not so. The central point is an argument against the false notion that the wealth and income disparities between the West and the Third World resulted from either religious differences or exploiter-exploited relationships between the two regions. The book points out that what some have interpreted as the result of evildoing on the part of the West are simply impacts of unintended consequences of technology. The book uses an example from Algeria where a technology like DDT intended for mosquito eradication and therefore malaria and typhoid elimination had the indirect effect of allowing a population growth which needed more food, which needed more land and other resources to grow the food, and in the end resulted in inequalities and reduced happiness. The example makes clear that the consequences of globalization "transcend the simple categories of Good and Evil" (pp. 2-3).
Globalization is not a monolithic and one-time phenomenon; instead it is a sequential and systematic Westernization of the globe that began with the "discovery" of America in the 15th century, was expanded by the English merchants in the 18th century, and has picked up pace to-date. During its early phases globalization brought to non-Western regions both cures (e.g., medicine) and infections (e.g. smallpox), but it is not so clear that all that was intentional. What is clear is that globalization dashed expectations in that many ended up disappointed that after voluntarily abandoning their cultures for Western civilization, they soon discovered, for example, that "far from delivering the free entry and transparency dreamed of by economists, the socalled information society creates its own barriers, replacing those that technology breaks down. [Thus], the enemies of globalization are arrayed in two opposed camps. One camp ... is that of the Mullahs who denounce the Westernization of the world. The other camp is that of [those] who fight the exploitation of workers by capital." (p. 5). However, the two arrays are simplifications because "to understand the current act of globalization within the confines of religion or exploitation is to miss globalization's singularity" (p. 6). The [] added.
Following Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, among others, Chapter 1 debunks explanations of world disparities in terms of pre-destinies such as genetics and geographies. I detect some hedging here, but the book finally settles on the importance of "initial conditions". For example, countries with large amounts of land can accommodate many people who invent more products and services, which makes endogenous growth both possible and sustainable.
Chapter 2 and 3 sketch the phases of globalization and conclude that globalization has become increasingly "immobile". It is no longer just a function of the international division of labor. The international division of labor can lead to unequal terms of trade in which, technically speaking, the Northern working class exploits the Southern class but blame ends up on the feet of international capital. The current globalization act has additional aspects like global equality of tastes and preferences along with disappearing distance and corresponding costs. Hence, winners in this phase are those at or closest to the center of the economic activity in terms of both production and consumption.
How did the observed differences arise? The answer is not clear here. It is clear, however, that it is not because of the "clash of civilizations". The clash of civilization is a myth based on the fact that there has always been active cross-fertilization and learning among world cultures. Civilizations that crashed are those that closed themselves off from others and withdrew into self-imposed isolation in either proud contentment or loathing of foreigners. China is one good example that appears now to have learned its lesson. Another example is the "indigenous growth" model that African and Latin American countries adopted upon their independence. The new republics invested heavily in "white elephants" for which the rate of returns remain negative. I like the distinction Cohen makes between "indigenous growth" and "endogenous growth". The latter is driven by economic "levers" such as human capital, physical capital, "global efficiency", and international trade. The emphasis is appropriate because, in praising the strengths of the Japanese model many seem to ignore that endogenous aspects have dominated Japan's indigenous growth.
What are the sources of the enmity toward globalization? There are many and Chapters 6 and 7 outline two. One source is that some (mostly Eroupean countries) equate globalization with empire building - American empire (Chapter 6). In some way their perspective has basis in history; after all Portugal, Spain, and England have been there and done all that. Their lesson was that empires are doomed and their longevity finite. A second and final source of enmity toward is that the benefits of globalization are tilted towards the North, while the South is under pressure from AIDS and Debt (Chapter 7). These two sources illustrate that " the problem of globalization up to now is it has altered people's expectations more than it has increased their ability to act" (p. 166). Without the ability to meet expectations, " for the majority of the poor inhabitants of our planet, globalization remains an inaccessible idea" (p. 166), and "the world will never be `just' as long as people do not have the conviction that they all contribute to discovering and molding a shared destiny" (` p169). Great job!
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The Open Economy and its Enemies: Public Attitudes in East Asia and Eastern Europe
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There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisation for developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussions and over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and cultural openness from the perspective of the public in four developing or ‘transitional’ countries: Vietnam, (South) Korea, the Czech Republic and Ukraine (both before and after the Orange Revolution). It finds many supporters of opening up, but also many who are discontented with its downsides and who expect states to tackle the exploitation and unfairness that accompany it. Among the most fervent enemies of openness there is support not just for peaceful public protest to tackle the problems it brings, but for violence or sabotage. The methodology provides a unique opportunity for the public in developing countries to ‘speak with their own voices’ about markets and openness – and highlights the subtlety, ambiguity, tensions, conflicts and emotion that statistics alone fail to capture.
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The British Labour Government and the 1976 Imf Crisis
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Great Service!!!.......2002-10-22
Every thing was done professionally, I am complete satisfied with the service I recieved.
Realistic college text; useful to working professionals.......2002-08-24
This book was written as a college-level text. It also targets IT professionals who need to quickly understand the differences between e-commerce applications and traditional information systems as a secondary audience.
As a college-level text this book is one of the few that will prepare students for the real world. The scope of topics, level of detail, and carefully chosen case studies are impressive because they capture the key knowledge areas and issues that working professionals deal with.
As a refresher for working professionals who need to understand the big picture and intermediate details associated with e-commerce applications this book's wide coverage of topics makes it ideal. While students will need to work through the entire book, an IT professional can choose the topic areas selectively. For example, the chapter on E-commerce applications that covers supply chain management, e-tialing and auction sites will have more appeal to a working professional, while the chapters on programming will probably capture a student's interest.
Additional features that will be of interest to each audience include:
- Students and Instructors: (1) CD ROM that comes with the book contains exercises, source code, and additional study material, (2) a companion web site that provides 296 PowerPoint slides that augment the course, and (3) links to over 750 web sites that reinforce the lessons.
- Working professionals: the CD ROM that comes with the book contains the full text of the book, which will allow searching for any topic or keyword. This is an excellent research resource, that is all the more valuable since the book is up-to-date and covers current technologies (Java, relational databases, XML, etc.), as well as important business issues.
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Developing e-Commerce Systems
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death through verbosity.......2006-11-05
This book was required for a Masters course in e-Commerce. Even the instructor did not like it and only had it on his required book list because the department chair had created the course and selected the book. It is dry and boring and you will slowly lose your mind as the author dissects each subject until there is nohting left but the bones.
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Developing a Successful Wireless Enterprise Strategy: A Manager's Guide
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The first, comprehensive strategy guide to wireless applications, synchronization, and backends
This book is for managers everywhere who feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of wireless technology options available to them. Author Scott Sbihli cuts through the hype and offers a rational framework to help managers determine their wireless strategy, figure out which handheld enterprise solutions will give the greatest return, and evaluate and choose the most appropriate technologies, in order to give them the competitive edge that their company requires. With the help of real-life examples and case studies, readers get the low-down on the trends, emerging technologies, security and maintenance issues, bottom line wireless costs, and much more.
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The Bottom Line Perspective.......2002-01-08
In my job, I don't need to get the nitty-gritty details of wireless technologies, I need to write reports and make suggestions for how wireless will improve our bottom line. This is the first book that puts wireless and mobile technology into a business perspective in a way that helps me make recommendations to my company.
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Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems: NSF Workshop IMWS 2001, Scottsdale, AZ, October 15, 2001, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of an International NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems held in Scottsdale, Arizona in October 2001. The 11 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions and a comprehensive consensus report for developing an infrastructure for mobile and wireless systems were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The book assesses the state of the art in the area and provides a research agenda for future R&D work.
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Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide
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Developing E-Business Systems & Architectures is not another book on how the Internet is changing business or about the potential of e-commerce. The authors assume that their readers already understand these things. Rather, it is written for executives and managers of medium to large companies who are considering or are already engaged in transforming their companies into e-businesses, and especially for IT managers with responsibilities for designing and developing new corporate software systems.
This book provides managers with a road map to help them develop a strategic plan for their own transition. It also focuses on e-business architectures and software development practices that will need to change, and how the company itself must change to accommodate software development with components. Since all transformation depends upon people, there is also an emphasis on the reorganization of IT teams to support component-based development.
* Includes many case studies that the authors, all of whom have written best-selling books on e-business, have gathered from years of experience in implementing these systems.
* Focuses on the changes companies must make in their IT groups to support the development of e-business initiatives.
* Fully describes the enterprise component architecture framework for implementing e-business applications with an enterprise class infrastructure.
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Poorly written book.......2004-02-07
I was disappointed by this book. The book is very dated. Several things discussed in the book as successes have fallen by the wayside.
Pro: Title, Con: Content.......2003-07-16
Don't waste your time or money on this one. Give me a ring, and I will ship it to you for free.
IT Consultant.......2002-09-04
I found the material valuable in helping me convey technical concepts to non-technical personnel. Part of my responsibility is to ensure all parties correctly understand the "why" as much as the "what" and "how" of an e-business project. The primary benefit I got was being able to see what the strategists are looking for in an e-business solution and how to present it in their terms. This book has also helped me address those who would chase "technology du jour" solutions that may be flashy but offer little or no real value other than to pad a resume.
Some of the ideas presented have provided a good starting point for team discussions and follow-on research projects. Also, the material has helped me develop an informal education program to help some mainframe structure programming folks make the transition to an e-business development environment.
At times, some of the material seemed a little jolty but overall I would recommend this to anyone with the desire to get a high-level overview without marketing hype. One reviewer pointed out that you cannot develop a complete solution, or even a detailed project plan, with this book alone. I would agree. However, used as an introduction and an accompanying text for more detailed technical books, "Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures" definitely adds value to my library.
Utter garbage - too bad there aren't sub 1 star reviews.......2002-05-16
What a collosal waste of time this book is.
The authors obviously don't have much of a grasp on e-business. The book is poorly organized and written in such poor style that it was a torture to finish.
Poor writing, poor execution from infantile minds.
Poor writing, poor theory, poor execution - a definite pass!.......2002-03-16
Wow, what a stinker this book turned out to be.
I've always been impressed with this publishers technical and computer books but this book was pretty dreadful. A mishmash of material cobbled together with gum and tape - there are other books that deal with this subject -pick one of those.
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Open Source Enterprise Solutions: Developing an E-Business Strategy
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This book shows IT professionals and developers that the open source approach can offer flexible, reliable, and secure enterprise solutions. Written by the founders of the Open3.org open source movement, the book provides a roadmap to all critical components of an open source e-business infrastructure. Through detailed coverage of Enterprise Applications (EA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) as well as Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Customer (B2C) software, the authors explain how to leverage open source solutions to bring business processes online, integrate disparate applications and databases across the enterprise, and ensure secure, efficient e-business transactions.
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A good introductory book on open source and ebusiness.......2001-11-21
This book provides a solid introduction to using open source software for ebusiness. The authors have a strong fundamental grasp of what ebusiness is, something that many so-called "ebusiness experts" fail at. They describe ebusiness as 5 interlocking categories: enterprise apps, internal and external integration, and business & consumer e-commerce. They then describe how open source software can be used in these categories.
The book is written for technical types, but really more for managers than developers. I'd like to have seen some code in this book, but nonetheless it did give me a good idea on where to begin looking and using open source software.
The chapters on integration and e-commerce are very good, with lots of details that many programmers would find useful. The authors also seem to have a good grasp of the state of open source and what types of decisions technical folks need to make when evaluating the software.
A good book if you want to find out what this whole open source and linux thing is and how to go about using it for your projects.
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If you're serious about it.......2006-11-15
If you really want a good practical book about making newsletters for a living this is a good start. The 1994 date means the internet is ignored, but there are several forms to help you get started doing a business in newsletters.
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