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Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First
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Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century Paperback - 2005 - 2nd Edition

by Peter Urmetzer


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The debate over economic globalization has reached a fever pitch in the past decade and a half with Western governments and multinational corporations trumpeting its virtues and a multitude of activists and developing-world citizens vociferously denouncing it. Both sides would agree that globalization is a recent development that is changing the way people and nations do business, but in Globalization Unplugged, Peter Urmetzer questions whether national economies are losing their sovereignty and whether the topic of globalization merits as much discussion as it receives.

Urmetzer's focus is specifically on Canada and he demonstrates that current levels of trade are not unprecedented and, further, that as the economy becomes more service oriented, it will also become less trade dependent. He points out that only a relatively small percentage of Canada's wealth is owned by foreign investors and likewise, only a small portion of the country's wealth is located outside of its borders.

Disputing claims that the nation-state is weakening or disappearing altogether, Urmetzer shows how the welfare-state side of government spending - conveniently ignored in the anti-globalization literature yet arguably the most significant development in the political economy of the nation-state in the twentieth century - remains remarkable stable. Written with precision and skill, Globalization Unplugged will spark controversy on both sides of the globalization debate and help deflate the rhetoric of both advocates and detractors.

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  • Title Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century
  • Author Peter Urmetzer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 2005-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780802037992 / 0802037992
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.12 x 0.73 in (22.96 x 15.54 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Globalization, Canada - Economic policy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.971
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