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    A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization

     
    Looking past the myths of globalization to the forces afoot in the global economy today
    6/12/2000
    "The very word globalization has begun to assume mythical overtones: Everybody invokes it, but nobody will define it," complain the authors. With 25 years between them as correspondents for The Economist, the two are in a unique position to rise to the challenge, and do so in inimitably savvy, sharp Economist style. To illustrate the forces afoot in the global economy today, they offer up compelling profiles and analysis from their research around the world, and even occasionally hark to the past, calling forth the likes of Locke, Marx and Rockefeller. "Globalization is not an inevitable process," they write, "but an all-too-human one, in which success has to be fought for rather than simply assumed."
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