In Chapter 72 of the Globalization Reader, Walden Bello provides a critique of the World Trade Organization. Calling it "opaque, unrepresentative, and undemocratic" in the first sentence, his audience gets a good idea of what he thinks of the WTO. Generally, Walden criticizes the WTO for catering too much to American needs, asserting that the free trade ideology of the WTO … [Read more...]
Culture and the Adoption of Contrary Economic Policy
The article Copyrighting Che overviews the causes, reasons, and results of the Cuban government allowing the free The Cuban government, in this border area of cultural economics, granted Cuban artists certain property rights regarding their intellectual labor that gave them an elite status compared to the average Cuban laborer. The economic impetus - the intellectual … [Read more...]
To the Moon and Back: Debt and Money
As I was watching the debate and reading Karen Ho’s article “Situating Global Capitalism’s: A View from Wall Street Investment Bank,” the topic of releasing Trump’s taxes came up, as well as his debt to international banks and companies, which supposedly totaled around and maybe over 650 million. That number, though not only unbelievably high, is confusing on how it is actually … [Read more...]
Why Slumdog Millionaire wasn’t popular in India
"In the same year that Jurassic Park grossed $6 million, Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! grossed $60 million," (Terrell 376). In Bollywood versus Hollywood, Heather Tyrrell situates Bollywood against Hollywood in order to explain western cinema's inability to monopolize the cinematic market in India. For starters, Bollywood actively offers popular anti colonialist sentiments because it … [Read more...]
Environmental Advocacy: All Talk and no Action?
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink use logging practices in Malaysia as a platform to spark conversation around deforestation and environmental advocacy networks. Keck and Sikkink argue that the Malaysian state of Sarawak and their logging campaign was different than most for three reasons. First, the conversation surrounding tropical forest logging took on a new form in the … [Read more...]
