On the Oppenheimer Society listserve, someone asked for recommendations of good books and articles on globalization. David Boaz offered this superb list:
•Free Trade Under Fire (2nd ed.) by Douglas Irwin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005)
An empirical verification of the positive benefits of free trade.•Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)
Uses conventional economic analysis to prove the benefits of free trade and globalization.•In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
An approachable defense of globalization by one of today’s leading free-trade economists.•In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2003)
A former left-anarchist debunks the claims of the anti-globalization movement.•Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002)
An extensive report on globalization’s impact on growth and poverty.•”Spreading the Wealth” by David Dollar and Aart Kraay. Foreign Affairs, January/February 2002.
Two World Bank economists show that globalization has narrowed the income gap between the world’s rich and poor.•Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism by Brink Lindsey (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002)
A comprehensive and historical analysis of globalization by the Cato Institute’s Vice-President for Research.And here’s the list on which they appear with other books: http://www.cato.org/trade-immigration/reading-list
Here’s a related list: http://www.cato.org/economicliberty/rl-economic-development.html
Find more subjects here: http://www.cato.org/research/readinglist.html
Dan Griswold also recommends another source here:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/10/22/a-globalized-reading-list/
