From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 00:22:48 MST
GLOBALIZATION
< http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.easterbrook.html >
Singer is the Ira DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center
for Human Values of Princeton. Singer, generally a hero to the loony left,
struggles with the issues of globalization in a rigorously hard-headed
manner rarely seen on this topic. Singer discards, or even shreds, much
anti-globalization cant, focusing on which international economic policies
will have the utilitarian outcome of raising living standards for the developing
world's poor. He proposes that formation of a "global ethical community"
roughly along UN lines should be a sustained, long-term historic objective,
but is realistic about the need to work within the existing framework of
nations and borders pretty much indefinitely. And, crucially, he is not
opposed to economic globalization. He asks the big question that
anti-globalizers
always dodge, namely: If we did away with globalization, would the poor
of the developing world be better off? No, he answers, to do so would leave
them worse off. This is the big point missing from the whole debate, and
it's impressive that Singer has locked on to it.
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