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Cargando... Falling Off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace and Other Liespor Alex Perry
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is a must-read for anyone who really wants to understand the negative aspects of globalization on millions of individuals throughout the world. The author is an award-winning correspondent who establishes rapport with many people and reports on them as individuals, contrasting their experience with reports of the miracles that globalization accomplishes for national economies. Besides the depressing individual stories cited by a previous reviewer, there is so much valuable information, insight and unique conclusions. ( ) This is an important topic, and "Falling Off the Edge" makes its point very well. But the endless examples and stories of death, misery, and destruction become tiresome and repetitive. I gave up 2/3 of the way through. I'd suggest reading the first bit of it, but unless you really enjoy doom and gloom, don't go through with it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
If the world is flat, as the prophets of globalization proclaim, then what happens on the underside? Alex Perry answers with this eye-opening journey through the planet's most dangerous hotspots Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations, governments and Western pundits have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. But what if the coming boom is an explosion? Alex Perry, award-winning TIME correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara--and observes globalization on the ground, instead of from the executive suite. Perry takes readers to Shenzen, China's boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day; and to Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums. He shares a beer with Southeast Asian pirates who prey on the world's busiest shipping artery. And he puts us in the middle of a firefight between American Special Forces and the Taliban. He shows that for every winner in our brave new world, there are tens of thousands of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are very, very angry. Falling Off the Edge is a tour de force of frontline reporting, which reveals with alarming clarity that globalization, far from a planetary panacea, starts wars. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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