I'm no fan of Eric Hobsbawm, the communist apologist and sometime historian, but I have even less time for those who have no knowledge, or worse, interest in history. Over on The Times comment section, Martin Ivens has a go at Hobsbawm for having a go at globalisation. Hobsbawm got a hearing on Radio 4’s Today programme to feast on our current woes, saying: “Globalisation, which i...
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Ranting Stan on 8th Mar 2009 (via rantingstan.blogspot.com)
I have just been reading Misha Glenny’s McMafia. It is excellent; an intelligent tour through the criminal landscape that emerged since the late 1980s, driven by a combination of globalisation, un-globalisation, technical change, and the usual things that fertilise big crime. We hear about the early history of the modern Russian mafia, how the UN
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AFistfulOfEuros on 25th May 2009 (via fistfulofeuros.net)
Once again I see people blaming the current economic crisis on capitalism and failing to attribute culpability to the real culprit in this ongoing disaster - globalisation. Why is it all down to globalisation? Well - to explain that I first need to explain what capitalism is and isn't. Capitalism is an economic model - not a political ideology - whereas globalisation is an extension of capita...
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Ranting Stan on 6th Aug 2011 (via rantingstan.blogspot.com)
GORDON Brown will warn today against giving up on globalisation because of the current worldwide financial crisis.
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Scotsman on 26th Jan 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Tracy Corrigan over on the Telegraph's comment section, considers the future of globalisation. It is almost always a mistake, I have noticed, to try to call the end of anything. The end of history, the end of boom and bust – like the musings of happy couples in Hello! magazine, such pronouncements inevitably seem to trigger a reversal of fortune. Corrigan goes on to suggest that the cre...
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Ranting Stan on 9th Dec 2008 (via rantingstan.blogspot.com)
Globalisation. The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade. Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is globalisation a force for good, or is it a policy that is sure to destroy the economic foundation of the United States and Europe while exporting our wealth and prosperity overseas? Watch
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SocialEuropeBlog on 27th Aug 2008 (via blog.social-europe.eu)
The threat to globalisation will grow unless and until there is a co-ordinated global recovery, writes Gideon Rachman
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FT on 3rd Jan 2011 (via ft.com)
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