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Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization

by Michael Veseth (Rowan & Littlefield, 2005).

 

Scroll down the page for excerpts (courtesy of Google Books), critical praise and the Globaloney World Tour.

 

Critical Praise for Globaloney

Globaloney was named one of the Best Business Books of 2005 by Library Journal.

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

The Globaloney World Tour

It's a small world after all

 

Bologna Italy, September 22, 2003 at 4 p.m.

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Bologna Center,  via Belmeloro 11

 

Tacoma, Washington: Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 9:30 a.m.

at Borders Books, S 38th & Steele Streets..

 

Olympia, Washington:  Saturday November 6, 2004 at 1:30 p.m.

at Olympia Timberland Library, 8th & Franklin.

 

Bellevue, Washington, Saturday December 4, 2004

9:30 a.m. at Borders Books, 505 Bellevue Square.

 

Seattle, Washington, Saturday December 4, 2004

1:30 p.m. at Borders Books, 1501 Fourth Avenue.

 

Santa Monica, California Saturday February 12, 2005

 10:00 a.m. at Santa Monica Public Library--Montana Branch, Community Room
1704 Montana Avenue

 

Orange County, California  Saturday February 12, 2005

1:00 p.m. at Borders Books Costa Mesa-Newport
1890 Newport Blvd.

 

San Diego, California February 13, 2005

1:30 p.m. at Borders Books San Diego-Gaslamp District
668 - 6th Avenue

 

San Francisco, California  Saturday February 26, 2005

 11:15 a.m. at Stacey's Bookstore

581 Market Street

 

Berkeley, California Saturday February 26, 2005

 2:30 p.m. at Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch

2940 Benvenue Avenue (at Ashby)

 

Mountain View, California Sunday February 27, 2005

 1:30 p.m. at Mountain View Public Library

585 Franklin Street

 

Washington. D.C., Saturday March 12, 2005

 10:00 a.m. at District of Columbia Public Library--Georgetown Neighborhood Library
3260 R Street, NW (at Wisconsin Avenue, NW)

 

Portland, Oregon, Saturday April 16, 2005

 10:30 a.m. at the Port of Portland Building,

Commission Room, 121 NW Everett

 

Prague, Tuesday July 12, 2005

8:00 p.m. at The Globe Cafe and Bookstore

  Pštrossova 6

Prague, Czech Republic

 

World Trade Center of Tacoma

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Globaloney book talk and Washington State wine tasting

The Tacoma Club, 16th floor, Wells Fargo Plaza, Tacoma, Washington

 

 

Fife, Washington  Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at Noon

Membership Luncheon

Fife Area Chamber of Commerce

Fife, Washington 98424

 

Prague, Sunday, July 23, 2006

7:00 p.m. at The Globe Cafe and Bookstore

  Pštrossova 6

Prague, Czech Republic

http://www.globebookstore.cz/

 

Juneau, Alaska, November 17, 2008

Juneau World Affairs Council