Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Thomas Prusa of Rutgers University reviews “Globalization and Its Enemies” by Daniel Cohen,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores globalization throughout history to determine how it has worked during three instances in the past, why the enemies of globalization oppose it, and why globalization does not always work for the poorest countries in the world. Discusses the birth of the north-south axis; moving from one globalization to another; the new world economy; the clash of civilizations; indigenous growth; the idea of the empire and globalization; and AIDS and debt. Cohen is Professor of Economics at the Ecole Normale Superieure and the University of Paris I. Index.”