Ritzer George - Globalization: a basic text

CONTENTS

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 07
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 11
11. Chapter 12
12. Chapter 13
13. Chapter 14

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Second Edition

This second edition first published 2015
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Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (1e, 2010)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ritzer, George.
Globalization: a basic text / George Ritzer and Paul Dean. Second edition.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-68712-3 (pbk.)
1.Globalization.I.Title.
JZ1318.R577 2015
303.482dc23

2014029766

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To Bodhi Axel Ritzer, With Much Love and Great Hope
for a Better World in Your Future
(GR)

To Tia Shields Dean, My Wonderful and Caring Wife who has Helped to Make
this Book and so Much More Possible
(PD)

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FIGURES

PREFACE

As we revise this preface in July, 2014, we are struck by how much the events of the day both reflect, and are profoundly changing, the process of globalization. For example, we write this only hours before watching Lionel Messi and Argentina take on the Netherlands in the World Cup the most famous global sporting event. Football (or soccer, as it is known in the United States) is the most played and most watched sport around the world. Football fandom also reflects a global culture and, with FIFA as its governing body, it has a global organizational structure.

It has been particularly fascinating to watch global events unfold as we were writing the second edition of this book. For instance, the first edition was published in the midst of the Great Recession. The ways in which economic processes (e.g. mortgage failures, credit freezes, the failure of legendary financial firms and banks), largely originating in the US, flowed around the world in relatively short order was breathtaking. As the crisis deepened and widened, political unrest grew, and the future of the global economy was uncertain. As of this writing, the global economy has stabilized but it has not yet rebounded to its pre-recessionary levels for many Americans and for many others in most parts of the world. A great number of scholars and activists argued that it was neoliberal policy (see ) that led to the Great Recession, and as the economic turmoil wore on, some predicted its demise. Now, having emerged from the Great Recession, it is clear that neoliberalism remains a strong force in both global politics and the global economy.