Critical Reflections on Globalization & Free Trade

Online Courses

  1. Globalization: Past and Future (Columbia University)
  2. Globalization’s Winners and Losers (Georgetown University)
  3. Global Markets and Personal Impacts (University of Washington)
  4. The Future of Globalization; Understanding Opposition (University of Grenoble)
  5. Globalisation (Oxford University)
  6. Local Economic Development(Erasmus University Rotterdam)

In the video slider you can find the trailer of some of these courses.

Books

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Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy (2021)
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present (2021)
The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources (2021)
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet (2021)
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How Six Everyday Products Make the Case for Trade (2020)
The Myth of the Global Corporation
The Myth of the Global Corporation (2021)
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy (2020)
Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age
Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (2020)
Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law
Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law (2020)
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (2020)
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All (2020)
The Failure of the Free Market and Democracy: And What to Do About It
The Failure of the Free Market and Democracy - And What to Do About It (2020)
'Trading for Good' by Christian Felber
Trading for Good; How Global Trade Can be Made to Serve People Not Money (2019)
Capitalism, Alone; The Future of the System that Rules the World
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World (2019)
Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism
Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism (2019)
Free Trade & Prosperity by Arvind Panagariya
Free Trade and Prosperity; How Openness Helps the Developing Countries Grow Richer and Combat Poverty (2019)
Book Cover: People, Power, and Profits; Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019)
People, Power, and Profits; Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019)
The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer
The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer (2019)
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade by Kimberley Clausing
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (2019)
What's Wrong with Protectionism; Answering Common Objections to Free Trade
What's Wrong with Protectionism: Answering Common Objections to Free Trade (2018)
Book Cover: Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith (2018)
Commerce and Strangers in Adam Smith (2018)
The Value of Everything; Makers and Takers in the Global Economy
The Value Of Everything; Makers and Takers in the Global Economy (2018)
Can Democracy Survive Global Captialism?
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? (2018)
Globalists; The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)
Globalists; The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)
The Divide; Global Inequality from Conquests to Free Markets
The Divide; Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets (2018)
Book Cover: Straight Talk on Trade; Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017)
Straight Talk on Trade; Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017)
Buidling the New American Economy; Smart, Fair & Sustainable
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017)
The Globalization of Inequality, by Francois Bourguignon
The Globalization of Inequality (2015)
homo economicus; the lost prophet of modern times
Homo Economicus: The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times (2014)
Distant Markets, Distant Harms
Distant Markets, Distant Harms; Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics (2014)
Is Fair Trade Fair?
Is Fairtrade Fair? (2013)
The Political Power of the Business Corporation
The Political Power of the Business Corporation (2013)
The Globalisation Paradoxby Dani Rodrik
The Globalization Paradox; Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist (2012)
Unfair Trade; The Shocking Truth behind Ethical Business
Unfair Trade: The Shocking Truth Behind 'Ethical' Business (2012)
"Fair Trade for All"by Stiglitz and Charlton
Fair Trade for All; How Trade Can Promote Development (2007)
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (2007)
Value Wars; The Global Market versus the Life Economy
Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy (2002)
Cover of unequal freedoms: the global market as an ethical system
Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System (1998)

Articles & Blogs

Hand-picked for you from around the web + original articles published just on the Moral Markets site

The Reset of Capitalism (in Europe)

We need a ‘Great Reset’ or ‘Great Reallocation’ of capitalism in which European capital is being invested in European companies, and vice versa, European companies being financed with European capital; these investment decisions resulting from a dialogue between the European wealthy and European entrepreneurs; and this process being maximally supported and promoted by national and European laws and regulations. This idea was not born from gloomy nationalism or anti-globalism, but from the conviction that a better balance is needed between global and local, between place of production and place of consumption, between mobile wealth and immobile labor, between large-scale politics and small communities, between freedom and responsibility, between short- and long-term. A viewpoint for the Future Markets Consultation submitted by Dutch think tank Socires.

Is There Sufficient Room for Local Communities in a Globalized Economy?

In a recent dialogue economists Raghuram Rajan and Paul Collier both defended their view that local communities should be re-empowered again. Yet Collier called it ‘dumb’ to reverse globalization. But can we have our cake and eat it, Ilse Oosterlaken wonders. Would it not be necessary to make economies more local before local communities can thrive again?

Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective

“In Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective, Hilton L. Root argues for the need to consider economies and social orders as open, complex networks, focusing particularly on the transitions that have shaped Europe and China historically with implications for the present day. This original volume will not only serve as a useful textbook for university courses, but will hopefully inspire related studies exploring the social worlds behind our constantly changing economic structures, writes Gábor Bíró.”

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