Globalization
of Media MCM404
VU
Lesson
22
ONE
GLOBE: MANY WORLDS
Text
of the handout for
students
Note:
This
is the first lecture in the course
that outlines the concept of a single,
shared global framework
for
humanity which is at the same time
split into different levels
and categories of development. In
one
sense,
this lecture is an introduction to the
concept of globalization which is a
historic process that
has
entered
a new phase in the 20th and 21st
centuries.
There
is abundant criticism and fear of
globalization, some of it justified, and
a lot of it not so. To
enable
students
to note and review some very
credible perspectives which
place globalization on a realistic
and
balanced
plane, the text of this handout is
excerpted from the first
chapter of a book titled:
"Open World:/
The
truth about globalization" by Phillippe
Legrain, published by Abacus in Great
Britain in 2003.
Students
are advised to, if they so
wish, explore information on the book
and the author by using the
Google
search
engine on the Internet. One indication of
the high praise with which
this book was received is
a
comment
made by Martin Wolf in the Financial
Times, London who said,
"We have waited a long time.
But
at
last a good book on
globalization has appeared......This is a
wonderfully lucid and
intelligent book.
Phillippe
Legrain takes on the many mistakes of the
anti-globalizer."
The
author of the book is Chief Economist of
Britain in Europe. He was previously
Special Adviser to the
Director-General
of the World Trade Organization.
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