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With a new afterword kindle edition by bhagwati, jagdish. Mar 04, 2004 globalization leads not to cultural white bread but to a spicy hybrid of cultures. Perhaps foreign companies pay lower wages than at home, but they generally pay better than local companies. He limits his defense of globalization to trade, direct investment and migration.
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He writes frequently for the new york times, the wall street journal, and the financial times and is the author of free trade today, the wind of the hundred days. The economist once again, columbia university economist jagdish bhagwati has weighed into the increasingly partisan and ideological debate over trade, offshore outsourcing and globalization. Later this week, mr bhagwati will present his views on. Featuring a new afterword by the author, in which he counters recent writings by prominent journalists and economists. In defense of globalization, bhagwati replies that the best remedy for poverty, inequality, pollution, or lack of democracy is economic growth, and that the royal road to economic growth is integration into the global economy. In the passionate debate that currently rages over glob.
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