Check these links out for further information on this week's topics

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for other perspectives not represented in the readings. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course.

General links on Globalization

• The Globalization Website
  Emory University Sociology Dept; lists of theories, people, organizations, debates, a useful glossary.
  http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/index.html
• Wikipedia on Globalization
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
• International Monetary Fund essay on Globalization
  http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
• World Bank sources on globalization
  http://www1.worldbank.org/economicpolicy/globalization/
• Global Policy Forum on Globalization
  Global Policy Forum (monitors UN policy) links on globalization http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm
• APEC on Globalization
  Australian APEC Study center's pro-globalization guide
  http://www.globalisationguide.org/
  

Economic Discourses

• The Global Transformations Website. Accompanies the book of the same name. 
• Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine website
• Joseph Stiglitz's home page
• Jeffrey Sachs's home page

U.S. Economics Thinktanks

• American Enterprise Institute http://www.aei.org/
• Brookings Institute http://www.brook.edu/
• Cato Institute http://www.cato.org/
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org/
• Economic Policy Institute http://www.epinet.org/
• Milken Institute http://www.milkeninstitute.org/
• National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/
• RAND http://www.rand.org/
• Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/
• Adam Smith Institute http://www.adamsmith.org/

Heterodox Economics Organizations

• Corpwatch: Holding Corporations Accountable http://www.corpwatch.org/index.php
• The Baffler
  Leftist political economy journal begun by Thomas Frank and others
  http://www.thebaffler.com/
• Left Business Observer
  http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
• Community Economies
  http://www.communityeconomies.org/
• Center for Popular Economics, Amherst, MA
  http://www.populareconomics.org/
• International Association of Feminist Economists
  http://www.iaffe.org/iaffe/Default.asp
• La Revue du M.A.U.S.S. (in French)
  Group of French intellectuals dedicated to promulgating an anti-utilitarian socioeconomic theory inspired by Marcel Mauss.
  http://www.revuedumauss.com/
• Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics
  http://www.sase.org/homepage.html
• Heterodox Economics Portal
  http://www.hetecon.com/
• Heterodox Economics Web, Bucknell
  http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm
• Society of Heterodox Economists
  http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/

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