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	Why the nowiki stuff around this ISBN? ] 04:06 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
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	"Globalization is a way to be global, worldwide, international, intercontinental." Sorry, I don't quite understand what this means. It seems important to have a clear definition (or summary of other peoples' definitions) here; on the other hand I don't feel remotely qualified to write one. --] 18:01 31 May 2003 (UTC)
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	:Since nobody seems to be taking care of this complaint, I tried. Hope others will join. I also think that this article would become better if pro- and anti-globalization thoughts are juxtaposed, rather than pushing all anti-globalization stuff into a separate article. ] 22:44, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC).
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	I'm wading in to start a section on the history of globalization. This would be a good place to begin bringing in a variety of viewpoints on the shape of the topic and the various histories of how globalization has occured. I'm not offering my section as a be all and end all, but instead I've taken the time to describe the standard economic theories attatchment to globalization. There is ample room for criticisms, such as "The Race to the Bottom" argument, the "Corporatization" and "Thatcherization" arguments, and the growing arguments of "fundamental scarcity. Disclaimer: I'm known for my work on fundamental scarcity of energy and its relationship to monetary systems, and have advised political campaigns on the trade issue, and am regarded as a "Free Trade advocate" in the model of Stiglitz id est Free trade is a reward, not a cure. I certainly hope individuals knowledgeable in the critiques of Free Trade and in the stronger more pure neo-liberal vein will make contributions as well. ]
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	: I wrote the section (which is now in a sidebar) on the main page which describes how the word is used in the field of Management. I went to business school about 15 years ago and this is how the word was taught to us then, and the word was not in widespread use outside of that context as far as I ever heard (the anti-WTC protests had not occurred yet). So, while I am not a scholar of the issue, I will go out on a limb and say that this is the origin of the term. "Trade" is something people have engaged in for as long as they have roamed. Prior to (say) the 80s, "international trade" and "international finance" and "multi-national corporations" etc. were the terms used to describe elements of the economy that had emerged after the "mercantile" period. Now the word has been adopted by the generic anticapitalist left.

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	: I think the article would improve if the above notion were adopted, and if the article included both sides of the issue: as much as some French or Nigerian people oppose McDonald's, other citizens of those places actually want to participate in the same global economy that everybody else is.
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	The thing is that globalization extends back a lot further than the twentieth century. I think that the history section should be far more extensive and may even warrant a distinct page to itself.

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	== Cultural diversity ==
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	I`m confused about the impact both globalization or its lack thereof will have on cultural diversity. Both sides (globalization and anti-globalization) seem to be claiming it as an advantage. If the measure of cultural diversity is the number of languages present in a region or the world at one time, isn`t it possible for both to affect it positively? Globalization encourages the sharing of cultures and potential for growth of cultures and their languages. Anti-globalization supports national soveriegnity so as to continue a country`s culture and language(s). Granted, a major argument against globalization is its ability to become imperial and assimilate less powerful nations under one ruling body which eliminates languages etc. However, isolation may cause certain cultures to become extinct as they resist change. Am I making this all to Darwinian? Please let me know what you think.

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	: Yes. For a small nation, to have access to huge foreign markets can be potentionally good. For example, in Quebec we have an internal market of 7 million people. That is not sufficient to sustain a growing economy in a lot of sectors, such as cultural "industries". Having access to the US market, exporting what we produce is in fact necessary for our survival. We really depend on it. However, Quebec is a post-industrial society with a high level of education and a high standards of living. Such is not the case with the majority of countries on this planet. ] 12:56, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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	: Many on the anti-globalization camp have redifined themselves as "]s", because they acknowledge that an increase in trade and better communication among the peoples of the earth is in itself a Good Thing. The propaganda now says: "another world is possible", "globalization of solidarity" etc. What is a Bad Thing is the current trend of globalization, the one which is centered strickly on the economic growth of certain rich companies in certain rich countries that need foreign markets to expand and keep their dominant position in the world. What a lot of people, even when marginally informed on the subject, are against is the current development of the world, the globalization of markets led by multinational corporations who answer to themselves alone, and abuse the IMF, the World Bank etc. That thing is pure evil. Even hardcore capitalists see the danger of it, as it grows totally out of control and is outside the influence of the national policies of any country. There is a monster creating huge inequalities right now (as if the wealth of the world wasn't already badly distributed!) ] 12:56, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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	I'm trying to translate this article (]) into Japanese wiki. And now I'm a bit confused... On the top of the list of globalising things, it says 'An increase in international trade at a faster rate than the growth in the world economy'. I understand 'n increase in international trade', but what does 'the growth in the world economy' mean? Could anyone point out specifically ''what'' in world economy is growing? Thanks. ] 20:39, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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	: One thing growing really fast in the new world economy are private international financial transactions. Some people, like those behind ] want to regulate and tax these transactions. ] 12:56, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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	:: Thanks for answering my quesiton, Mathieugp. In the Japanese verison, I've translated only 'n increase in international trade' (without the comparison with world economy). The original (i.e. increase in int'l trade faster than world economic growth) may seem understanble in English, but not in Japanese. The answer you've given is helpful, but it isn't directly concerned with the (increase of) international trade. So I'm thinking to integrate your opinion into other items (financial/monetary one). (But maybe I have to translate ] page before that in that case). Anyway, Cheers :) ] 00:23, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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	: "The growth in the world economy" means that the "] of the World" is increasing. The unequality Trade > Economy (actually Finance > Trade > Economy) is an important aspect of Globalisation. (] 04:34, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC))
			== Neoliberal Hegemony and Populist Revolt ==

			Economist ] argues that since the late 1970s economic globalization has become a vehicle for the spread of ] economic policies, which have systematically benefited financial elites at the expense of workers, citizens, and democracy.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|first1=Robert \|title=Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? \|date=2018 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York \|isbn=9780393609936 \|pages=xiv-xix}}</ref> This has been enacted primarily through the weakening of governmental regulations and labor unions, including laws regulating the international movement of finance. "The orthodox view is that these shifts resulted from changes in the nature of the economy... nothing in the structure of the late-twentieth-century economy compelled a reversion to an unregulated nineteenth-century market. This was a political shift." Kuttner contrasts this with the more benign rules and goals of economic globalization that were formulated at the ] conference near the end of ], which enabled national governments to enact policies that led to widespread growth, stability, and increasing equality throughout the developed world.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|first1=Robert \|title=Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? \|date=2018 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York \|pages=26-63}}</ref>
	== Thomas Friedman? ==

			Trade agreements have been used to curtail the right of national governments to regulate their own economies, thus subordinating the sovereignty of democratically-elected governments to international bodies dominated by corporate interests. As such, "trade agreements defined a broad range of domestic financial, health, consumer, environmental, and labor regulations as infringements on free commerce. A radical reinterpretation of private property rights adopted the far-right claim that regulation was an uncompensated "taking" of property. Business leaders had failed to persuade US courts that this was a reasonable ...but the doctrine became a part of the common structure of international law, via the back door of trade...the newly invented rights of corporations to challenge regulations as illegal restraints crowded out the ability of national democracies to manage capitalism. Agendas for these trade deals were set mainly by corporations, facilitated by allies in government; the official advisers to trade deals were mainly corporate." The panels created to enforce these trade agreements, under the rubric of ] (ISDS), were "private, and riddled with conflicts. A panel member could literally serve as a "judge" one day and a lobbyist the next. Ex parte contacts - secret undisclosed lobbying to work the referee - were permitted, and flagrant."<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|pages=184,198-199}}</ref>
	This may just be my opinion, but how can you have a complete article on globalization without making references to Thomas Friedman and his book ''The Lexus and the Olive Tree''? Many feel that Friedman was one of the defining figures in the pro-globalization movement.
	Maybe someone just overlooked him... --] 12:25, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

			Under this neoliberal version of globalization, democratic reforms and regulations have been undermined or removed in the name of competitiveness in the global economy. "With global markets and no global standards, domestic workers are thrown into direct competition with more desperate overseas workers. A century’s worth of democratic struggles to regulate labor standards are hosed away. At the other end of the spectrum, the worldwide liberation of finance creates astronomical incomes for the elite."
	==Unclear definition==

			The deregulation of international finance is a key aspect of neoliberal globalization, and essential to understanding the trade policies of the US and UK since the 1980s. While the US and Britain long embraced the doctrine of ], East Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China flourished by adopting an informal trade policies of ] and ], which discouraged imports while encouraging industrialization and exports.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|pages=180-181}}</ref> This fostered an unequal playing field, in which manufacturing industries in the US and UK declined or moved some of their activities overseas, leading to factory closings and job losses. American "manufacturing went from having a rough trade balance with the rest of the world in the early 1980s, to having a deficit of over $700 billion in 2006. The trade deficit in goods in 2016 was $347 billion with China alone." <ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner, \|pages=191-193}}</ref> Although these policies undermined American and British manufacturing, they helped to fulfill certain diplomatic goals of the US - except in the case of China.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|pages=180-181,201-208}}</ref> Yet while the US did little to support American manufacturing, political leaders in the 1980s and 1990s made great efforts to bring down barriers to American finance, including opening up China to American firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|pages=181,195-197}}</ref>
	I don't get it. What does ] mean, in the context of the "]"?

			The systematic weakening of organized labor, controls on capital, and democratic sovereignty resulting from neoliberal globalization have led to widening inequality, greater insecurity and dislocation, and stagnating standards of living for a majority of people in both developed and developing nations.<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Tolan \|first1=Sandy \|title=Brexit's Meaning? Globalization Sucks \|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/brexits-meaning-globalization-sucks \|website=The Daily Beast \|accessdate=April 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Frank \|first1=Thomas \|title=Listen, Liberal: or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? \|date=2016 \|publisher=Metropolitan Books \|location=New York \|isbn=9781627795395 \|pages=87-88,101-102}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|first1=Robert \|title=Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? \|date=2018}}</ref> Many observers argue that this has fueled a widespread backlash against globalization throughout the West, evidenced by ], and the rise of populist leaders on both the political right, such as ], ], ], and ], and the left, such as ].<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Kuttner \|first1=Robert \|title=Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? \|date=2018 \|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company \|location=New York \|pages=xiiv-xix,1-14}}</ref> “The fact that the far-right backlash is occurring in nearly all Western nations at the same time is no coincidence, nor is it accidental contagion. It is a common reaction against the impact of globalization on the livelihoods of ordinary people.”
	Does globalization mean the spread of ] economic principles, i.e., the ability of individuals to set the price at which they sell their labor or other goods and the corresponding ability to choose the supplier of goods and services they wish to obtain and to choose what price to offer for these?

			Furthermore, the promised benefits of globalization to less-developed nations have rarely materialized, and often led to severe inequality and dislocation of the poor. For example, NAFTA (the ]) forced Mexican farmers to compete with large, subsidized American ], decimating Mexico's corn growers, and causing millions of Mexican agricultural workers to abandon their homes and migrate to the United States looking for work as undocumented, low-paid wage laborers.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Frank \|first1=Thomas \|title=Listen, Liberal \|pages=87-88}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|last1=Tolan \|first1=Sandy \|title=Brexit's Meaning? Globalization Sucks \|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/brexits-meaning-globalization-sucks \|website=The Daily Beast}}</ref>
	If so, I'm not sure '''why''' the anti-globalizationists would oppose these abilities, unless they have some philosophical, political or other motive for inhibiting ] economics. (I've heard that anti-globalization is just the latest guise of ] and/or the movement to spread ].)
			] (]) 01:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)Mr Malarkey
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			== Possible contributions to be made regarding Biological Globalization ==
	And is it only the excesses and unfair practices that the anti-globalists oppose? That is, are they trying to '''reform''' the free market so that it stays free is adjusted to prevent exploitation?

			Hello, I have been assigned to edit this article as part of my class. Please notify me of any mistakes or lack of etiquette, I'm quite new to editing on this platform. I was looking at the article ] and found it to be quite lacking in information. Perhaps that article could simply be merged with the main globalization article, and of course improved on.
	Or do they seek to '''destroy''' the free market, replacing it with some variation on socialism? That is, are they protesting the excesses and unfair practices as '''step one''' in a multi-step process?

			Looking at a few sources to include information from, let me know what you think.
	The reason I ask for this distinction is that is looks like a ], like the animal rights activists I met in Central Park who were circulating a petition about the treatment of horse-drawn cabs. The guy I talked to freely admitted that '''improved conditions''' for the horses was not his ultimate goal. He wanted to ban the use of horses altogether. (Another example is people who want to regulate the ivory trade -- not to keep poachers from making elephants extinct ''per se'' -- but as the first step in banning ALL killing of elephants for their tusks.) --] ] 17:44, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

			1. Olmstead, Alan L. and Rhode, Paul W., Biological Globalization: The Other Grain Invasion (May 2006). ICER Working Paper No. 9/2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=932056 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.932056
	== Postmodernism series ==

			2. https://www.britannica.com/science/cultural-globalization/Entertainment#ref225002
	I've created a ] feel free to add other important examples of postmodernism - broadly defined - in this template so that readers can gain a better understanding of the terms involved by comparing and contrasting their use over several articles. ] 17:28, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

			3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371972/
	== aggregation of globalization and anti-globalization ==

			4. https://www.britannica.com/event/Columbian-exchange#ref1274353
	I'm against aggregation of globalization and anti-globalization.

			] (]) 20:35, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
	My feeling is that the anti-this-or-that people are aiming at a politically expedient label instead of their intended targets. Misplaced Pages need not provide a tool for people with a political agenda. Does Misplaced Pages include Anti-Democracy in the democracy page? How about equal time for the guys who think that the Holocaust is part of the “Great Jewish Conspiracy?”

			:Hi Alex, welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thanks for your interest in this article! I took a brief look at ] and my first thought is that this is a very small number of sources compared to the amount of text you want to add. This would result in the sources you're using having ] compared to the other ~220 sources in the article, most of which are only used for 1-2 sentences each. This is especially important for an article on a topic as broad as this one, which normally contains a very high-level summary of many different topics with much of the detail spread out into subarticles (this is called ]). The general rule is that the amount of emphasis given to any particular subject should reflect the amount of emphasis on that subject within the reliable sources as a whole, especially those sources that are most authoritative such as textbooks and academic review papers. ] <i style="font-size:11px">(])</i> 17:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
	If you don't like the IMF, that's cool. Don't like offshoring? Fine. Globalization is huge and not liking something shouldn't constitute dislike of things like open borders or the Internet or a hunderd of the other things that make up what we think of as globalization.

			:Thanks for posting here. ] certainly deserves an expansion, through I'd suggest discussing this at ] (but it is good to make a note here, as many more people follow the talk here than at the bg page which is unlikely to be on many watchlists compared to this talk page). Regarding your sandbox idea, first, we would prefer a more academic, secondary source to the tetriary (anther encyclopedia). And I'd suggest expanding the article on biological globalization first, only then summarizing any key points here. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">]\|]</sub> 02:45, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
	I must mention that I strongly endorse the addition of a section on Friedman. His "From Beirut to Jerusalem" is a not so gentle introduction to the territory surrounding globalization and "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" presents a decently balanced view. If you read just the Lexus without Beirut, you may think that he is without sufficient compassion. One may disagree with the man, but he is most assuredly not without compassion.

			== Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2022 - Infobox (multi-image) ==
	I can't help mention that the inclusion of Friedman would represent the best of Misplaced Pages in terms of using resources that are accurate, but not academic.

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	Bob C
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	Boynton Beach, FL
			The positions of images in the description of the topmost multiimage don't match the image positions.
	3-19-05
			Resizing the browser window, or changing between mobile (en.m) and desktop (en) version doesn't change the order.
	:Who said the two articles ] and ] should be aggregated? They are sufficiently different to be in different articles (the difference being in the fact that "anti-globalization" is a misnomer). If they were more similar, then we might decide to follow the general Misplaced Pages policy of keeping criticism of X in the article about X, which is, as far as I can tell, what nobody is proposing. You are wrong about the Democracy article; there is indeed a "pros and cons" section.
			The order of the descriptions matches the image definition order
			and their positions from top to bottom, left to right,
			so one just needs to change the bold text:

			Top-left -> ok
	If you want material on Friedman, then write it. ] 21:41, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
			Top-right -> ok
			Middle-right -> Middle-left
			Bottom-left -> Middle-right
			Bottom-right -> Bottom

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	:Please, some ] in ] could write it for a fraction of the cost. You should rather consider merging this into Anti-globalization, which is better written at the moment. Something of a gloabalization proponent, --] 13:36, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
			Also, since image 6 is mainly around Africa (and the filename is African undersea cables v44.jpg), please change
			a map of connections around Europe, Africa and Asia
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			a map of connections around Africa, Europe and Asia
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			a map of connections around Africa, Asia and Europe

			Thanks --] (]) 20:08, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
	== What is globalism? ==

			:] '''In progress:''' An editor is implementing the requested edit.<!-- Template:ESp --> ] ] ] 23:26, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
	The term 'globalism' is used a few times (and it redirects here), but it is not made clear what that word means. First, it is suggested that the word refers to the economic aspects of it (I think that is meant as a definition, but then it could do with some rewriting)), but then it is added to the 'pro-section'. Which suggests that the protagonists of globalisation are mostly found among those who focus on economic factors, but that can't be right. ] 19:27, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
			:{{done}}<!-- Template:ESp --> I've slightly changed the wording on your second request to better reflect what the map revolves around. I took the liberty of doing so as I thought it to be in the spirit of your request. If you disagree, feel free to let me know of course! ] ] ] 23:36, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

			== Food Security section ==
	==Improvement Drive==
	The related articles ] and ] are currently nominated on ]. Support these articles with your vote there or comment on the nomination. --] 09:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

			With regards to this line: The political movement 'BREXIT' was considered a step back in globalisation, it has greatly disrupted food chains within the UK as they import 26% of food produce from the EU.
	== the "meanings" sidebar ==

			This seems a highly disputable statement and features no citation. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 06:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
	I've just come across this page for the first time (after doing some ] at ]) and I must say that the "meanings" sidebar does not display well on my screen. Also, it isn't included in the table of contents, so I can't link to it at the point in the first paragraph which says "see below" (even though it seems the logical reference of that sentence fragment). Is there any objection if I move it to an actual section in the article? ] 12:10, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

			== Measurement section lacks introduction ==
	:Having heard no objections, I have made the move.] 18:46, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

			I think we can do a better job of introducing the measurement of globalization than the sparse "One index is x and another is y", what can be a better preface? ] (]) 03:13, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
	== the neutrality issue ==

			== slobalization? ==
	I have to say, the section where neutrality is at issue should be removed. It has not logical connection with the other sections, and is redudant in explaining comparative advantage.
			This is a term which from 2008 - present means the slowing down of globalization. should this be included in the article? ] (]) 03:53, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
	]

			:Because there's nothing left to globalize? Maybe Antarctica?] (]) 14:21, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
	== Where Have The External Links Gone? ==

	I remember a time when this article had a long list of external links. Where have they gone?
	] 14:12, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

	== Essay on Globalization ==

	Hi
	iam doing essay on Globalization, can any one with some time on there hands and knowlage of the subject please email me on woodhousescotty@hotmail.co.uk i would like to show you what i have done so far and get comments and feedback.
	Thanks

	==messed up table==
	the trade series table is all messed up and in the middle of the page, could someone fix it i dunno how
	:Indeed. In my view it even overlaps the Meanings header.

	==history of globalization==
	I am thinking of creating an addition to this page and topic on the ]. Comments? Would this be appropriate or appreciated? I think that globalization is a pertinent topic today, but also needs to be considered in light of historical antecedents dating back hundreds of years. ~jonesa3

	==Problems with the Anti-Globalization Section==
	I have spent the last few minutes editing the anti-globalization section, mainly editing writing problems. There is still a lot of work to do. I am changing "Most are reformist (arguing for a more humane form of capitalism) and a strong minority is revolutionary (arguing for a more humane system than capitalism)" to "Most are reformist, (arguing for a more humane form of capitalism) while others are more revolutionary (arguing for a more humane system than capitalism). Although most anti/alter-globalizationists probably are reformist, I think it is hard to say that only a small minority are revolutionary, judging by my own annecdotal experience (which is obviously not a good source). This could be my own bias as a revolutionary, so if someone can find a good source to show that only a small minority are revolutionary, put it back in. Also, there are a lot of people involved who are anti-capitalist and reformist (democratic socialists for example), so even the paranthetical comments could be revised. ] 08:20, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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Surhone, L. M., Surhone, L. M., Timpledon, M. T., & Marseken, S. F. (2010), Social determinants of obesity: Obesity, social class, globalization, physical fitness, undeveloped countries, Betascript Publishing{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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Neoliberal Hegemony and Populist Revolt

Economist Robert Kuttner argues that since the late 1970s economic globalization has become a vehicle for the spread of neoliberal economic policies, which have systematically benefited financial elites at the expense of workers, citizens, and democracy. This has been enacted primarily through the weakening of governmental regulations and labor unions, including laws regulating the international movement of finance. "The orthodox view is that these shifts resulted from changes in the nature of the economy... nothing in the structure of the late-twentieth-century economy compelled a reversion to an unregulated nineteenth-century market. This was a political shift." Kuttner contrasts this with the more benign rules and goals of economic globalization that were formulated at the Bretton Woods conference near the end of World War II, which enabled national governments to enact policies that led to widespread growth, stability, and increasing equality throughout the developed world.

Trade agreements have been used to curtail the right of national governments to regulate their own economies, thus subordinating the sovereignty of democratically-elected governments to international bodies dominated by corporate interests. As such, "trade agreements defined a broad range of domestic financial, health, consumer, environmental, and labor regulations as infringements on free commerce. A radical reinterpretation of private property rights adopted the far-right claim that regulation was an uncompensated "taking" of property. Business leaders had failed to persuade US courts that this was a reasonable ...but the doctrine became a part of the common structure of international law, via the back door of trade...the newly invented rights of corporations to challenge regulations as illegal restraints crowded out the ability of national democracies to manage capitalism. Agendas for these trade deals were set mainly by corporations, facilitated by allies in government; the official advisers to trade deals were mainly corporate." The panels created to enforce these trade agreements, under the rubric of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), were "private, and riddled with conflicts. A panel member could literally serve as a "judge" one day and a lobbyist the next. Ex parte contacts - secret undisclosed lobbying to work the referee - were permitted, and flagrant."

Under this neoliberal version of globalization, democratic reforms and regulations have been undermined or removed in the name of competitiveness in the global economy. "With global markets and no global standards, domestic workers are thrown into direct competition with more desperate overseas workers. A century’s worth of democratic struggles to regulate labor standards are hosed away. At the other end of the spectrum, the worldwide liberation of finance creates astronomical incomes for the elite."

The deregulation of international finance is a key aspect of neoliberal globalization, and essential to understanding the trade policies of the US and UK since the 1980s. While the US and Britain long embraced the doctrine of free trade, East Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China flourished by adopting an informal trade policies of protectionism and neomercantilism, which discouraged imports while encouraging industrialization and exports. This fostered an unequal playing field, in which manufacturing industries in the US and UK declined or moved some of their activities overseas, leading to factory closings and job losses. American "manufacturing went from having a rough trade balance with the rest of the world in the early 1980s, to having a deficit of over $700 billion in 2006. The trade deficit in goods in 2016 was $347 billion with China alone." Although these policies undermined American and British manufacturing, they helped to fulfill certain diplomatic goals of the US - except in the case of China. Yet while the US did little to support American manufacturing, political leaders in the 1980s and 1990s made great efforts to bring down barriers to American finance, including opening up China to American firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

The systematic weakening of organized labor, controls on capital, and democratic sovereignty resulting from neoliberal globalization have led to widening inequality, greater insecurity and dislocation, and stagnating standards of living for a majority of people in both developed and developing nations. Many observers argue that this has fueled a widespread backlash against globalization throughout the West, evidenced by Brexit, and the rise of populist leaders on both the political right, such as Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen, and Viktor Orban, and the left, such as Bernie Sanders. “The fact that the far-right backlash is occurring in nearly all Western nations at the same time is no coincidence, nor is it accidental contagion. It is a common reaction against the impact of globalization on the livelihoods of ordinary people.”

Furthermore, the promised benefits of globalization to less-developed nations have rarely materialized, and often led to severe inequality and dislocation of the poor. For example, NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) forced Mexican farmers to compete with large, subsidized American agribusiness, decimating Mexico's corn growers, and causing millions of Mexican agricultural workers to abandon their homes and migrate to the United States looking for work as undocumented, low-paid wage laborers. Mr. Malarkey (talk) 01:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)Mr Malarkey

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Possible contributions to be made regarding Biological Globalization

Hello, I have been assigned to edit this article as part of my class. Please notify me of any mistakes or lack of etiquette, I'm quite new to editing on this platform. I was looking at the article Biological globalization and found it to be quite lacking in information. Perhaps that article could simply be merged with the main globalization article, and of course improved on.

Looking at a few sources to include information from, let me know what you think.

1. Olmstead, Alan L. and Rhode, Paul W., Biological Globalization: The Other Grain Invasion (May 2006). ICER Working Paper No. 9/2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=932056 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.932056

2. https://www.britannica.com/science/cultural-globalization/Entertainment#ref225002

3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371972/

4. https://www.britannica.com/event/Columbian-exchange#ref1274353

Alex Oeser (talk) 20:35, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Alex, welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thanks for your interest in this article! I took a brief look at your sandbox and my first thought is that this is a very small number of sources compared to the amount of text you want to add. This would result in the sources you're using having undue emphasis compared to the other ~220 sources in the article, most of which are only used for 1-2 sentences each. This is especially important for an article on a topic as broad as this one, which normally contains a very high-level summary of many different topics with much of the detail spread out into subarticles (this is called summary style). The general rule is that the amount of emphasis given to any particular subject should reflect the amount of emphasis on that subject within the reliable sources as a whole, especially those sources that are most authoritative such as textbooks and academic review papers. Sunrise (talk) 17:29, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for posting here. Biological globalization certainly deserves an expansion, through I'd suggest discussing this at Talk:Biological globalization (but it is good to make a note here, as many more people follow the talk here than at the bg page which is unlikely to be on many watchlists compared to this talk page). Regarding your sandbox idea, first, we would prefer a more academic, secondary source to the tetriary (anther encyclopedia). And I'd suggest expanding the article on biological globalization first, only then summarizing any key points here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:45, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2022 - Infobox (multi-image)

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Edit 1 request

The positions of images in the description of the topmost multiimage don't match the image positions. Resizing the browser window, or changing between mobile (en.m) and desktop (en) version doesn't change the order. The order of the descriptions matches the image definition order and their positions from top to bottom, left to right, so one just needs to change the bold text:

Top-left     -> ok
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Edit 2 request

Also, since image 6 is mainly around Africa (and the filename is African undersea cables v44.jpg), please change

a map of connections around Europe, Africa and Asia

a map of connections around Africa, Europe and Asia

a map of connections around Africa, Asia and Europe

Thanks --Ziom 2.0 (talk) 20:08, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

In progress: An editor is implementing the requested edit. Amadeus 🙋 🔔 23:26, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Done I've slightly changed the wording on your second request to better reflect what the map revolves around. I took the liberty of doing so as I thought it to be in the spirit of your request. If you disagree, feel free to let me know of course! Amadeus 🙋 🔔 23:36, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Food Security section

With regards to this line: The political movement 'BREXIT' was considered a step back in globalisation, it has greatly disrupted food chains within the UK as they import 26% of food produce from the EU.

This seems a highly disputable statement and features no citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.101.249.254 (talk) 06:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Measurement section lacks introduction

I think we can do a better job of introducing the measurement of globalization than the sparse "One index is x and another is y", what can be a better preface? Forich (talk) 03:13, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

slobalization?

This is a term which from 2008 - present means the slowing down of globalization. should this be included in the article? Ikipedia2 (talk) 03:53, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Because there's nothing left to globalize? Maybe Antarctica?213.230.87.219 (talk) 14:21, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

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