Livro: Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization - Harold James

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Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

By Harold James

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023)

James says: 

    "My book is in a sense an outgrowth of the COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic change it wrought in everyone’s lives, and in geopolitics. I had been thinking about globalization and its discontents for over 30 years, and became intrigued by the way that there are historical reversals, as in the Great Depression, but also new phases of intense interconnection. The COVID crisis then seemed to me to hold analogies with previous moments when globalization was reimagined and reconfigured, such as the mid-nineteenth-century famines and revolutions, or the supply shocks of the 1970s. 

    The current rhetoric about deglobalization is oblivious to the way in which technology (comprising weightless products) links the world in novel and profound ways. Unlike most people who see the world fragmenting and splitting into blocs, I see a dynamic – similar to that of the mid-nineteenth century or the later twentieth century – in which a concern with competent government and improved, more efficient business structures would drive a new wave of adoption of technologies, as well as eventually more opening – if you like, more globalization, and more beneficent globalization."