Challenges to Globalization: Analyzing the Economics

Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization’s relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets and wage levels, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices.

The contributors to this volume present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low-wage labor.

Robert E. Baldwin is the Hilldale Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

L. Alan Winters is professor of economics at the University of Sussex, a research fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), and a senior visiting fellow for the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.