Has Globalization Gone Too Far?

DHas Globalization Gone Too Far?
Institute for International Economics | 1997-03-01 | ISBN: 0881322415 | 128 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market-the apparent "winners"-and those without. These apparent "losers" are increasingly anxious about their standards of living and their precarious place in an integrated world economy

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