tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320499219200491287.post5356369357326087453..comments2023-10-09T15:36:21.464-04:00Comments on Fairer Globalization: David Grewal on Network PowerPolicy Innovationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16579852959458521021noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320499219200491287.post-82747863447343981492008-07-01T11:20:00.000-04:002008-07-01T11:20:00.000-04:00Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winner for economics and wa...Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel winner for economics and was Chief Economist at World Bank) said while on a trip to India, that 600 million people from India (out of the one billion!) have been left out of the “development” fold of globalization.<BR/><BR/> So, obviously, all India is not going to migrate into middle class, if anything the inequality is far, far worse now, after the advent of globalization. Similarly newspaper reports have pointed out how Chinese workers are working in apalling conditions, to chhurn out the low cost products, with poor pay, cramped rooms, no accident or health insurance benefits, no job security, no overtime, long working hours - so who is actaully benefiting from this sort of globalization? Corporates ofcourse, and the few privileged people of India nd China who have been able to get educated in engineering and technology! Not the vast majority of population.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Two books to read, which offer a counterperspective to Friedman's "The World is Flat."<BR/><BR/>The Harvard Professor, Pankaj Ghemawat's latest book, "Redefining Global Strategy," is more academically inclined. I read an article of his published in the journal, "Foreign Policy", where he argues that the world is, at best, only semi-globalized. His argument being that Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic aspects of a nation come in the way of total globalization from taking place and cites examples of the same.<BR/><BR/>The other small, but interesting book, is by Aronica and Ramdoo, "The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis of Thomas Friedman's New York Times Bestseller." It is a small book compared to the 600 page tome by Friedman, and aimed at the common man and students alike. As popular as the book may be, some reviewers assert that by what it leaves out, Friedman's book is dangerous. <BR/><BR/>The authors point to the fact that there isn't a single table or data footnote in Friedman's entire book. "Globalization is the greatest reorganization of the world since the Industrial Revolution," says Aronica. <BR/><BR/>You may want to see www.mkpress.com/flat<BR/>and watch www.mkpress.com/flatoverview.html<BR/>for an interesting counterperspective on Friedman's<BR/>"The World is Flat".<BR/><BR/>Also a really interesting 6 min wake-up call: Shift Happens! www.mkpress.com/ShiftExtreme.html<BR/><BR/>There is also a companion book listed: Extreme Competition: Innovation and the Great 21st Century Business Reformation<BR/>www.mkpress.com/extreme<BR/>http://www.mkpress.com/Extreme11minWMV.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com