Book Review

1. Book Review (scholarly resource, including peer review):

Salmons, Richard.“ The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.” Review of The Globalization Paradox, by Dani Rodrik, Policy 27, no. 2:59-60.

* Salmons claims that Rodrik sets out a lively and interesting history of world trade and gives a clear explanation of the intellectual power of the argument for free trade. However, he doubts the assumptions behind Rodrik’s three-way globalization dilemma because his core argument is that ‘national democracy and deep globalization are incompatible’. Such system may well be threatened by the expansion of free trade, but this is not everyone’s definition of democracy. Salmons also argues that for all Rodirk’s presentation as a major response to the global financial crisis, it feels surprisingly out of date. He illustrates that it is regrettable that Rodrik is still stuck in a 1990s frame of mind where globalization was all about sharply differentiated developed and developing countries. He suggests that as the centre of economic gravity shifts closer to the centres of population, it will be necessary to think of globalization in far more forward-looking ways.

* First published in 1984, POLICY is Australia's leading quarterly magazine that explores the world of ideas and public policy from a broadly classical liberal perspective. POLICY has consistently published articles authored by some of today's leading thinkers on issues of public policy and is widely read in Australia and around the world.

2. Book Review (scholarly resource, including peer review):

Opoku, Darko Kwabena. “Bad Samaritans: Rich Nations, Poor Policies and the Threat to the Developing World” Review of Bad Samaritans, by Ha Joon Chang, Journal Of Human Development, July, 2008.

* Opoku claims that while the scope of this book is already vast, Bad Samaritans sidesteps a range of pressing questions regarding the social, human and environmental aspects of...