“In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.” WorldCompanySizeTinyMediumsErasGlobalizationMultinationalsWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.” WorldMeanChildrenCountryDarkCompanyOppositesAccountsWorkersInternationalCornersPursuitForestsLabourGlobalizationFree MarketPitsCompetitivenessEmployingCorners Of The WorldInternationalismComplete Opposites Author:Anita Roddick
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson