The Global Economy: Connecting the Roots of a Holistic System

This book on the global economy will help to sort out the confusing and overwhelming events that are directly affecting you, your future, and the lives of those around you. Our understanding of the global economy is like a wad of hard-as-a-rock taffy, all stuck together and difficult to pull apart. This book pulls apart the taffy-like global economy so that the sticky strands are clarified and analyzed. In doing this exercise, three dimensions to the global economy are identified: free market capitalism (neoliberalism) and/or state capitalism, economic globalization, and financialization. Each dimension is distinct but interconnected. Once the organization of the global economy is laid out, we have a more informed way to critique it, see the benefits and the fault lines, and propose solutions.