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Critical Praise for Globaloney
In Globaloney, Michael Veseth achieves
a rare combination: he conveys important economic arguments in a
vivid and highly entertaining style. For anyone trying to assess
the goods and bads of headlong progress toward a global economy,
and trying to sort bogus fears from genuine reasons for concern,
this book is a great place to start.
—James Fallows, National Correspondent,
The Atlantic Monthly, and author of Breaking the News
and Looking at the Sun
Here's a book to break the spell
cast by simplistic economic creeds from both left and right. If
you want to make fresh discoveries about the global marketplace,
Michael Veseth is your man. Don't let his lively, informal prose
style fool you. He has a scientist's keen nose for tracking
what's true back to its native lair: that wild thicket of fact
where prevailing theory just won't fit.
—Howard Cutler,
Executive Producer, Commanding Heights Online--The Battle for
the World Economy
Michael Veseth continues his amiable progress
through the enchanted, topsey-turvey world of contemporaqry
economic mythology. A real economist with an observant mind, he
provides a series of suave and charming tales from his travels
through the real world--stories whose subjects range from Adam
Smith to Michael Jordan, from soccer to the French, from
mediocre mass food to global good wine. Skillfully blended
together, these chase away the goblins of globaloney and leave
us with a nicer world than we had thought."
—David P. Calleo, Johns Hopkins University
With his customary verve, Michael Veseth has
launched a passionate broadside against what he calls the
"myths" of globalization. Not everyone will agree with his
unorthodox views; many will be provoked. But this book deserves
to reach a wide audience. In a style both witty and easily
accessible, Veseth uses familiar elements of popular culture to
challenge conventional thinking. Readers will feast on
Globaloney.
—Benjamin J. Cohen , Louis G. Lancaster Professor of
International Political Economy, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Michael Veseth's Globaloney is the
perfect down to earth primer for undergraduates trying to
understand the debate over globalization. By focusing on
commodities within every student's reach - baloney, Michael
Jordan, and soccer balls - Veseth transparently links abstract
global processes to real life.
—Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia
Michael Veseth has written an accessible book
that focuses on the inherent complexity of globalization. With
clear language, gentle wit, and incisive logic, Veseth skewers the
simple myths we like to believe about the interconnectedness of
the world around us. However, Globaloney is more than
just an aid to clear thinking, and complexity is hardly a virtue
in its own right. Veseth's real aim is to help us better
understand the many and conflicting ways that globalization
touches on different societies and individuals. Understanding his
argument is a necessary first step in the development of a 21st
Century worldview.
—Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Veseth’s imaginative account of the varieties of
globalization demands the attention of both scholars and
students of the world economy. Through original case studies
and deeply informed analyses, Veseth presents a fresh picture
of a refreshingly diverse and serendipitous globalization.
While the media, activists and policymakers generally paint
globalization with a single brush, Veseth draws on a broad
pallete to puncture popular myths and promotes critical
thinking. Globaloney is an important new work that
advances our understanding of globalization and its effect on
society and culture as well as business and finance.
—G.
Pascal Zachary,
author of The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural
Identity in the New World
This book presents a novel and engaging critical analysis that
incorporates insights from political economy into a story that
will appeal to a wide readership.
—Jarrod Wiener, University of Kent
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