Globalization and Well-Being

Grant Reuber:
Globalization and Well-Being is provocative, well written and thoughtful, as well as masterful in presentation – Helliwell does not waste a word or relevant thought.

Ronald I. McKinnon:
This book is stimulating, and the opening review of the literature on the importance of national borders for international trade is superb.

Richard Harris, Telus Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University:
John Helliwell is one of the best writers in the economics profession. His arguments are logical and coherent and eminently accessible to other academics and social scientists as well as to those generally interested in the effects of globalization on well-being and national identity ... He has done an admirable job of presenting both the positive and normative case for the importance of a nation-state