Globalization

This is simply a wonderful textbook. I teach a college class in international business and have used the most popular undergraduate textbook for years, gradually coming to the conclusion that there was a lot of extraneous material in it, and that it had the standard flaw of college textbooks: students come away having been introduced to lots of theories, but with no understanding of their relative importance. For example, they could graduate with a business degree and not understand capitalism or comparative advantage.This book, on the other hand (as another reviewer wrote), doesn't waste a word or a picture (most textbooks are cluttered) and focuses on what matters. Every word is worth reading, and if Boudreaux includes a graph it's worth 10,000 words. The students are thrilled with how short it is, at the beginning, and then they start to find the surprises and learn that many of their previous ideas are simply wrong. (This has come to be my definition of education.)And teaching this book has re-energized me!

Professor Boudreaux has written an excellent guide for someone wishing to understand globalization. The book is concise, yet thorough and Dr. Boudreaux's text is polished and interesting. This text would be useful even for those with limited understanding of economic principles as Boudreaux excels at simplifying material that others try to make more confusing than it actually is. He is a down to earth teacher whose goal is to help you understand, not an ivory tower pinhead whose goal is to inflate his own ego by leaving you wondering how anyone can understand this stuff.

Great book to learn about globalization. The only thing I disliked is that it is very basic. If you need a more in depth discussion of globalization this is not the book. Great to get your feet wet in the subject.

Good product, shipped fast. Would recommend.

I've read several recent books on globalization while planning an economic geography course, and this is the best-written. In particular, Boudreaux presents exactly the right amount of detail for beginning students (and for anyone else who wants to understand the subject without taking a year of economics beforehand). A course on globalization would require additional readings -- I'd supplement it with chapters from Global Shift, by Peter Dicken, among other things -- but this book is the best core text on the subject.

I follow Dr. Bourdreaux he is a good economist..amongst the many others who do not have a clue.

Professor Boudreaux, a scholar in his own right, offers a technical but highly readable trade book that anyone interested in the topic will particularly enjoy.A must read for international business majors, economists, and future politicians.

OK so most people know if they are pro or anti globalisation, but everyone should read this book; it's authoritative, short, clear, and knocks the anti camp out for ten; read it! the chapter on the balance of payments deficit should be compulsory reading for every politician and political/economic journalist before they are allowed to open their mouths on the subject! Don said on econtalk the price was outside his control but he wished it was cheaper, so do i, then it could be set text for my students.