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Understanding Globalization

by Robert K. Schaeffer

Contents: Change and the modern world -- The world after World War II -- Dollar devaluations -- Fighting inflation -- Debt and taxes in the Third World -- Debt and taxes in the United States -- Stock market and job loss -- Technology, food, and hunger -- Free trade agreements -- Population growth -- Global climate change -- Dictatorship and democracy -- The spread of separatism -- Mafias and the global drug trade.