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Lechner, Frank and John Boli, eds. The Globalization Reader. Blackwell, 2000
Contains a wide variety of texts illuminating political, economic, cultural, and individual dimensions of globalization. The book illustrates key issues in public and scholarly debate about globalization. (book description)
Complementary website: http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/
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Paul W. Rhode ed. The Global Economy in the 1990s A Long-Run Perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006
'… an excellent collection of essays by an excellent group of economists and economic historians. Focusing attention on the U.S. economy in the 1990s, with comparisons with other countries and other periods, it provides an important economic history of the twentieth century as well as an interesting starting point for the study of the twenty-first century.' Stanley L. Engerman, Professor of Economics and History, University of Rochester. |
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Opinion/Editorials
by Thomas L. Friedman
Use www.lexisnexis.com,
to access the proceeding articles. It is
free for those connected to the University
of Maryland server. Log on under academic
under current subscribers. Search for the
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Anyone, Anything, Anywhere
September 22, 2006
The New Yorker once ran a cartoon by Peter Steiner of two dogs, with one sitting at a computer keyboard saying to the other, ''On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.'' Nobody also knows you're Uruguay. A tiny country of three million people, wedged between Brazil and Argentina, .... |
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Comanding Heights, PBS Website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/index.html
The site offers a comprehensive overview of global economic history from the beginning of the First World War through 2002. Along with a six-hour video narrative divided into short chapters, it includes extensive interviews, essays, charts, reports, an interactive atlas of history, and economic data related to the topics of globalization, economic development, and international trade.
Designed for students of economics, modern world history, political science, and international relations at the college and university undergraduate level. It can also be useful in upper-level high school courses associated with the same topics. |
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Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epi.org/
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute -- or "think tank" -- based in Washington, D.C. EPI researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States and around the world, seeking to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. |
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EPI RESEARCH ASSOCIATES: Jennifer King Rice, University of Maryland
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/economist#rice
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Discovery Channel
Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: “The Other Side
of Outsourcing” (44:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=jQaHrcwKsoc
Why are so many high-tech jobs going to India? You
might be surprised at what started it all. Join New
York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as he explores
the growing trends of outsourcing American jobs.
Don't miss the Discovery Times program, Thomas
L. Friedman Reporting: The Other Side of Outsourcing.
DVD
http://shopping.discovery.com/product-56037.html |
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Timeline of outsourcing
http://times.discovery.com/convergence/outsource/slideshow/slideshow.html
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Follow the jobs:
A quiz
http://times.discovery.com/convergence/outsource/quiz/quiz.html |
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Addicted to Oil (2006) Directed by Kenneth Levis USA, 53 minutes (Thomas L. Friedman Reporting)
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman brought globalization to the masses with his book The World is Flat. In his new documentary Addicted to Oil, he takes petropolitics--the relationship between oil prices and the power of oil-rich nations--into the mainstream. With gas prices over $3.00 a gallon and the cost of the war on terror mounting, topics like energy conservation, global warming and alternative energy have never been hotter, and Friedman’s explication of the intricate relationship between energy, national security and geo-political power couldn’t be more timely.
- Explore the timeline created by the Discovery Channel
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Borderline Cases: Environmental Matters at the United States-Mexico Border (1996) Dir. Lynn Corcoran. 65 minutes.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bc.html
Investigates the environmental impact of factories that have been built in Mexico at the US-Mexico border by multinational corporations.
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For Man Must Work: Or the End of Work (2001) Dir. Jean-Claude Bürger. 52 minutes.
http://www.frif.com/new2002/fmmw.html
As human resources continue to be replaced by technology, this film asks if the inevitable result is an economic apartheid, where a third of humanity is unemployed, bringing an end to work as we know it. |
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Not for Sale (2002) Dir. Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. 31 minutes.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/nfs.html
Examines the new corporate practice of patenting life forms, airing the views of farmers, indigenous people, and anti-globalization activists who oppose patents on life.
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T-Shirt Travels: A Documentary on Secondhand Clothes and Third World Debt in Zambia (2001) Dir. Shantha Bloemen. 60 minutes.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/tshirttravels/film.html
Tracks workers in the informal economy of Zambia who make their living trading in secondhand clothing from the U.S. |
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Life - A series of 30 Programs on Globalization Issues
1. The Story So Far - This program shows how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people.
Nonprint Media Services VHS Videocassette JZ1318 .L54 2000
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