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Article: Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World.(Book review)
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- Journal of Economic Issues
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- March 1, 2006
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Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World, edited by Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2005. Paper, ISBN 0385721862, $14.00. 271 pages.
The globalization phenomenon is a hard one to spin into a nutshell. That hasn't stopped smart guys like Francis Fukuyama from proclaiming the "end of history" or Lester Thurow from promising that the global economy will ultimately dissolve our national economies. These hoots of hyperbole have by now become cliches, leading one to think that the more absolutist the less reliable the promulgation. The current volume avoids such self-satisfied manifestos and instead seems to employ an ...