Front cover

About the author

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and acronyms

Introduction

1. Complexity, mythology and over-globalisation: an overview of global integration

Internationalisation versus globalisation

Some history and mythology of globalisation

Conclusion

2. The perennial debate: free trade and globalisation in theory and history

The magic of numbers and triangles

The story gets complicated

Mainstream rebels

Vindicated by history?

Conclusion

3. The biggest game on earth: the myth of trade-led growth

The great debate

It’s complicated!

Lies, damned lies and computer models

What’s in a number?

Conclusion

4. Converting the world to capitalism: the rise and fall of the Washington Consensus

The making of an elite consensus

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Latin America

South Asia (Indian sub-continent)

East and Southeast Asia

China

Conclusion

5. A planet in chains: capital, supply chains and the economy of nowhere

But how does it work in theory?

Juggernauts of the chained world

Juggernauts in action

Finding their own chains

The myth of TNC/FDI/GVC-led growth

Runaway value chains

The rise of nowhere

Conclusion

6. The dark lords of money: financial globalisation, crises and insanity

The root of (some) evil

The necessity of virtue

Crises, crashes and catastrophes

Everybody loves finance

The myth of finance-led growth

The financial system from hell

A catastrophe unforetold?

Conclusion

7. Globalisation and people: the many costs of global integration

Adjusting the workers

Race to the top or bottom?

Poverty and the myth of global solutions

The rise and rise of inequality

The myth of migration-led growth

Trading the green?

The globalisation of everything?

Conclusion

8. One world mania: the problems of excessive global integration

The myth of globalisation-led growth

The war between integration and autonomy

Wall-to-wall trade agreements

The limits of integration and globalisation

An alternative world order

Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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