Seeing the elephant : understanding globalization from trunk to tail /
Understanding globalization from trunk to tail
Peter Marber.
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
- xxiv, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-400) and index.
Seeing the elephant in the 21st century -- Trade and finance: money, money everywhere -- Energy: twilight of the hydrocarbons? -- Security and defense: preventing the next war, not fighting the last -- Immigration: people, people anywhere -- Health: promoting tomorrow's health, not paying for yesterday's ills -- Environment: the hidden cost of everything -- Poverty: remembering the bottom of the pyramid -- Driving with a new dashboard in the macro quantum world.
9780470283851 (cloth)
2008040633
Globalization--Economic aspects. Globalization--Social aspects. Globalization--Environmental aspects. Quality of life. Twenty-first century.