The Blackwell Companion to Globalization

It is proverbial that you never see a bus for ages, and then several come along at once. The same appears to be true of reference books about globalization, for this is the third reviewed in these columns within a year (Wunderlich and Warrier, 2007) (RR 2008/156) and Robertson and Scholte, 2007 (RR 2008/111)). However, it is quite distinct from the other two, as this is a collection of 35 essays rather than an encyclopedia or dictionary. The essays, by prominent academic experts, run to a total of about half a million words. Naturally, they do...