An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.
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Globalization builds bridges across national boundaries.
Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor.
Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Fortune Best Book of the Year An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.
In doing so, they showcase a more integrative way of thinking about complex problems.
By isolating the fundamental value conflicts--growth versus sustainability, efficiency versus social stability--driving disagreement and showing where rival narratives converge, Roberts and Lamp provide a holistic framework for understanding current debates.
Both globalization\'s boosters and detractors will come away with their eyes opened.
Instead of picking sides, Six Faces of Globalization gives all these positions their due, showing how each deploys sophisticated arguments and compelling evidence.
The authors expertly guide us through six competing narratives about the virtues and vices of Globalization: the old establishment view that globalization benefits everyone (win-win), the pessimistic belief that it threatens us all with pandemics and climate change (lose-lose), along with various rival accounts that focus on specific winners and losers, from China to America\'s Rust Belt.
But what exactly are we fighting about? And how might we approach these issues more productively? Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp cut through the confusion with an indispensable survey of the interests, logics, and ideologies driving these intractable debates, which lie at the heart of so much political dispute and decision making.
When it comes to the politics of free trade and open borders, the camps are dug in, producing a kaleidoscope of claims and counterclaims, unlikely alliances, and unexpected foes.
Globalization fuels the populism and great-power competition that is tearing the world apart.
Globalization builds bridges across national boundaries.
Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor.
Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty.
An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together
