Frank J. Garcia (BC): Convergences: A Prospectus for Justice in a Global Market Society. Helena de Bres (Wellesley): Justice and International Trade. Dani Rodrik on the false economic promise of global governance. Daniel W. Drezner on five known unknowns about the next generation global political economy. Matthew Yglesias on premature deindustrialization, the new threat to global economic development. We’re entering a Star Trek economy: Manu Saadia on how robots could be a big problem for the third world. Eric Palmer (Allegheny): Multinationals’ Responsibility in the Developing World. These 25 companies are more powerful than many countries: Going stateless to maximize profits, multinational companies are vying with governments for global power.
Larry Cata Backer (Penn State): Are Supply Chains Transnational Legal Orders? What We Can Learn from the Rana Plaza Factory Building Collapse. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost go inside “special economic zones”, the corporate utopias where capitalism rules and labor laws don’t apply. The world has too many workers — here’s one way to fix it. Daniel Whittall reviews Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness. Sarah Waters and Jenny Chan on how work can lead to suicide in a globalised economy. The conditions of working-class people in the global north are converging with the conditions of the global south: Roque Urbieta Hernandez and Fabiola Navarro interview Nancy Fraser on the battle for neoliberal hegemony.
Is neoliberalism oversold? Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion. Dan Danielsen (Northeastern): Beyond Corporate Governance: Why a New Approach to the Study of Corporate Law is Needed to Address Global Inequality and Economic Development. Jozsef Borocz (Rutgers): Global Inequality in Redistribution: For A World-Historical Sociology of (Not) Caring. For hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. and Europe, the past decade has been absolutely without any advance in incomes; this could be the start of an entire generation that never sees its living standards progress. Hamilton Nolan interviews Branko Milanovic, author of Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (and more). Brad DeLong on a brief history of (in)equality.
