Globalization Will Alleviate Poverty

Usha C. V. Haley, George T. Haley and David M. Boje

Chapter 3 in Storytelling in the Global Age:There is No Planet B, 2019, pp 37-63 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This third myth, free trade and globalization will “lift all boats,” and end poverty (Ibid., World Trade Observer, 1999), has been trumped since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. It is true the rich millionaires and billionaires are getting richer in an upward global spiral of wealth accumulation since Bretton Woods, and this is even continuing since the 2008 financial meltdown…

Keywords: Globalization; The Sixth Extinction; Planet B; Storytelling; Myths (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F23 F6 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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