From: cryofan (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 19:34:36 MST
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:22:48 -0700, you wrote:
>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?
Some fat cat professor with a 100K salary and a big house considers
the effect of globalization upon foreigners before he considers the
effect it has upon his own fellow citizens? Typical.
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