QUESTION: Joseph Stiglitz recommendations for "making globalization work".

question / pregunta: 

What do people with a left perspective -- economists, sociologists, political scientists and others -- say about Joseph Stiglitz's recent book, Making Globalization Work? His criticism are not usually new. More important, his goal seems to be to save global capitalism by reforming its major institutions, those hardly subject to constraints by national states.
Could you recommend any non-technical articles or reviews of his book by left critics of Stiglitz's approach? We would prefer materials available on the internet, through libraries or websites? I found only a brief article by Gudynas on Stiglitz's earlier book via URPE. Many thanks.

Answers

Here is a list of reviews for that book so far, of these, I say try for the American Prospect.

The Economist v. 380 (Sept. 9 2006) [with excerpt]
Booklist v. 103 no. 5 (Nov. 1 2006). Driscoll, Brendan, reviewer
The New York Times Book Review v. 111 no. 52 (Dec. 24 2006). Frieden, Jeffry A., reviewer [with excerpt]
The Times Literary Supplement no. 5409 (Dec. 1 2006). James, Harold, reviewer [with excerpt]
Library Journal (1976) v. 131 no. 16 (Oct. 1 2006). Cameros, Cynthia, reviewer [with full text]
Choice v. 44 no. 6 (Feb. 2007). Veseth, M., reviewer Commonweal v. 134 no. 7 (Apr. 6 2007). Perkins, George M., reviewer [with full text]
Business Week no. 4004 (Oct. 9 2006). Coy, Peter, reviewer American Prospect v. 18 no. 3 (Mar. 2007). Kuttner, Robert, reviewer
Challenge (Armonk, N.Y.) v. 50 no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2007). Taylor, Lance, reviewer
African Business no. 326 (Dec. 2006) [with full text]
Challenge (Armonk, N.Y.) v. 50 no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2007). Taylor, Lance, reviewer

In addition, you can do a keyword search on "ZNet" and find commentary about Stiglitz. At first search, I did not find specific commentary on this book: http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm

Also, the recent times magazine review is excerpted online courtesy of Rachel's Democracy & Health News #902
here

Lastly, here is a list of citations of other commentaries in left-leaning journals that discuss Stiglitz. You may need to visit your local library to get a hold of the full-texts for most of these:

Chait, J. (1999). Shoeless joe stiglitz: Renegade at the top. The American Prospect, (45), 52-56.
Chief economist at World Bank

Chavagneaux, C. (2000). Stiglitz contre le FMI. Alternatives Economiques, (182), 70.
Stiglitz against the IMF

Fine, B., & Van Waeyenberge, E. Correcting stiglitz: From information to power in the world of development. Socialist Register 42, (2006): 146-68

Guillen Romo, H. (2006). Evolución de la economía del desarrollo. Realidad Económica, (221), 48-69.
Evolution of the development economy En este artículo se estudia el pensamiento económico anglosajón estándar en materia de desarrollo. El período de auge corresponde a los años cincuenta y sesenta en que dominaron los enfoques pluridisciplinarios de los "pioneros del desarrollo" (Lewis, Rostow, Nurkse). La declinación se opera en los setenta y más aún en los ochenta con el dominio de los plantamientos neoclásicos de Harberger y Krueger que desembocan en los "modelos de equilibrio general calculable para el desarrollo". En los años noventa se opera un renacimiento de la problemática original del desarollo por intermedio de la teoría del crecimiento, sobre todo gracias a los nuevos keynesianos de la información imperfecta (Stiglitz) y a la escuela institucionalista (North).

Henwood, D. (2000). Stiglitz and the limits of 'reform': The recent departures of the world bank's chief economist and an expert he brought in makes it clear that the 'washington consensus" still rules. The Nation, 271(9), 20-22.

Henwood, D. (2002). Stiglitz: Time to snuff the IMF? Left Business Observer, (102), 4-5+.
Former World Bank official Joseph Stiglitz

The hospital that makes you sicker.(2004). New Internationalist, (365), 14-15.
Former World Bank economist Joseph Stiglitz

Palast, G. (2001). The globalizer who came in from the cold. Progressive Populist, 7(20), 8.
Former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz

Palast, G. (2001). The globalizer who came in from the cold. International Socialist Review, (19), 16-18.
Former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz

Press, E. (2002). Rebel with a cause: The re-education of joseph stiglitz. The Nation, 274(22), 11-16.
Former chief economist at the World Bank and Nobel Prize winner in economics on his efforts to reshape debate about globalization