Globalization

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Globalisation
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Globalization and its Discontents
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Post-American World
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Making Globalization Work
Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
No Logo
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
How Soccer Explains the World
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Shane Claiborne
the church was an international institution long before globalization.
Shane Claiborne

Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States or Western Europe. In fact, with deregulation and "free trade", the cost of living in many Third World cities is now higher than in the United States. My experience in Latin America and Haiti is that the prices of meat, fish and fresh vegetables are about the same as in the United States. Can you imagine eating on less than one dollar a day? ...more
Vincent A. Gallagher, The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization

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