The end of the world as we know it?
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1533703,00.html
Martin Jacques
Saturday July 23, 2005
The Guardian
The Collapse of Globalism
by John Ralston Saul
309pp, Atlantic, =A316.99
There have been countless books describing the rise of globalisation,
but its decline, though hardly new, is much less familiar territory.
This is the nub of John Ralston Saul's book. He dates the rise of
globalisation from 1971 and argues that its central tenet is that
"civilisation should be seen through economics, and economics alone".
He depicts the rise of the ideology of free trade from the mid-19th
century as a similarly mono-dimensional and economically fundamentalist
phenomenon. There is much to commend his exposition of globalisation,
or rather the ideology of globalisation, which he terms "globalism": it
is informative, engaging and, above all, bitingly critical.
John Ralston Saul
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