Marber, Peter.

Seeing the elephant : understanding globalization from trunk to tail / Understanding globalization from trunk to tail Peter Marber. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. - xxiv, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-400) and index.

Seeing the elephant in the 21st century -- Trade and finance: money, money everywhere -- Energy: twilight of the hydrocarbons? -- Security and defense: preventing the next war, not fighting the last -- Immigration: people, people anywhere -- Health: promoting tomorrow's health, not paying for yesterday's ills -- Environment: the hidden cost of everything -- Poverty: remembering the bottom of the pyramid -- Driving with a new dashboard in the macro quantum world.

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Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Globalization--Environmental aspects.
Quality of life.
Twenty-first century.

337 / MAS 2009

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