A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of GlobalizationA Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture? What will happen to individual careers? Gathering evidence worldwide, from the shantytowns of São Paolo to the boardrooms of General Electric, from the troubled Russia-Estonia border to the booming San Fernando Valley sex industry, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge deliver an illuminating tour of the global economy and a fascinating assessment of its potential impact. |
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Page xxi
... biggest question about September 11 , however , is the Sarajevo one . Was the attack on the World Trade Center one of history's turning points ? Are we witnessing the end of a process of global integration that has been gathering pace ...
... biggest question about September 11 , however , is the Sarajevo one . Was the attack on the World Trade Center one of history's turning points ? Are we witnessing the end of a process of global integration that has been gathering pace ...
Page xxii
... biggest states and cities were printing their own currencies . An economy that had once been one of the world's most sophisticated was reduced to something akin to medieval barter . Brazil also looked vulnerable . As for Zimbabwe ...
... biggest states and cities were printing their own currencies . An economy that had once been one of the world's most sophisticated was reduced to something akin to medieval barter . Brazil also looked vulnerable . As for Zimbabwe ...
Page xxvii
... biggest and most rapid eradication of poverty that the world has ever seen : Several hundred million peasants climbed out of a life that had consisted of little more than the relentless struggle to stay alive . As we have already ...
... biggest and most rapid eradication of poverty that the world has ever seen : Several hundred million peasants climbed out of a life that had consisted of little more than the relentless struggle to stay alive . As we have already ...
Page xxviii
... biggest economies relies on comparing the sales of companies with the GDPs of countries . But GDP is a measure of value added , not sales . Using a measure for value added for companies , only thirty - seven multinationals appeared in ...
... biggest economies relies on comparing the sales of companies with the GDPs of countries . But GDP is a measure of value added , not sales . Using a measure for value added for companies , only thirty - seven multinationals appeared in ...
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... biggest freshwater body in the world , now polluted beyond repair by state factories producing substandard cotton , for which there was no market other than the one mandated by bureaucrats . Eventu- ally , by increasing military ...
... biggest freshwater body in the world , now polluted beyond repair by state factories producing substandard cotton , for which there was no market other than the one mandated by bureaucrats . Eventu- ally , by increasing military ...
Contents
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Technology as Freedom | 29 |
The Dirty Dollar | 46 |
The Visible Hand | 64 |
Sex Death and the Welfare State | 78 |
Part Three | 95 |
The Closing of the Global Mind | 183 |
Silicon Valley and the WinnerTakeAll Economy | 201 |
The Losers from Globalization | 242 |
The Backlash Against Globalization | 267 |
Membership Has Its Responsibilities | 289 |
Working and Investing in | 308 |
The Hidden Promise Liberty Renewed | 328 |
Acknowledgments | 341 |
Bibliography | 357 |
Index | 365 |
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A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization John Micklethwait,Adrian Wooldridge No preview available - 2001 |
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