Assessing Globalization's Critics: "Talkers Are No Good Doers???"

Kimberly Elliott, Debayani Kar () and J. David Richardson ()
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Debayani Kar: Peterson Institute for International Economics
J. David Richardson: Peterson Institute for International Economics

No WP02-5, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: This paper is about the critics of the "doers" of globalization. It describes who they are, where they came from, what they want, how economists, policymakers, and others might understand them better, and where globalization might head from here. Many critics are themselves strongly internationalist and want to see globalization proceed, but under different rules. Some, particularly the protesters in the streets, focus mainly on what is wrong with the world. But some of them put forward broad alternative visions and others offer detailed recommendations for alleviating the problems they see arising from status quo globalization. Most of them have roots in long-standing transnational advocacy efforts to protect human rights and the environment and reduce poverty around the world. What brings them together today is their shared concern that the process by which globalization's rules are being written and implemented is undermining democracy and failing to spread the benefits broadly. This paper sketches the key issues and concerns that motivate the critics in a way that is broadly representative and intelligible to economists. It finds more resonance for the critics' agenda in economics than they commonly recognize. And it attempts to capture the concerns of Southern as well as Northern critics and to analyze the issues that divide as well as bring them together. Finally, it evaluates those issues and alternative proposals on which even globalization enthusiasts and the critics might come together cooperatively.

Keywords: globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F01 F02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-09
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