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Title: Globalization and Its Discontents
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Narrator: Derek Perkins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 52 votes
Genres: Business, Leadership
Publisher's Summary:
This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
When it was first published, this national best-seller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book.
Members Reviews:
Highly thought provoking analysis on globalization
What made the experience of listening to Globalization and Its Discontents the most enjoyable?
Excellent and fascinating content thanks to the quite unique insight offered to us by Joseph Stiglets.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I believe that I now have a greater insight and understanding of ills the "emerging economies" reproach to the "rich nations" and why the way forward rapidly needs change.
Good ideas, repetitive book
The book is a solid look at the failures of globalization but rather repetitive, especially as the author continuously bashes the IMF for the same actions over and over again.
Is this a suitable narrator for an audiobook?
What would have made Globalization and Its Discontents better?
A narrator without a speech impediment
What did you like best about this story?
Hard to tell, since one cannot bear to listen to the reading for more than five minutes.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Absolutely and completely.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment at the poor quality check by whomever released this.
Any additional comments?
Pity on an otherwise interesting material. Will have to be content with reading the book instead.
Globalist masquerading as a critic
Stiglitz seems to come across as a guy who sees the faults in our international monetary system and carefully points out the inherent flaws and hypocrisy of modern western finance, crony capitalism, banking and government. However he utterly fails in suggesting that the answer to governments inefficiencies is by adding more government and regulation. He essentially backs Soros philosophy and proposes less freedom and more government as the answer. He is a true socialist when it comes to anyone outside of public institutions and believes that more Keynesian economics is the solution. In essence he is just another insider playing the big government game and advocates against freedom and sovereignty.
The book does provide insights into real international finance and history and I recommend it only on historical grounds.
