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As diverse and geographically distant markets and cultures have become irreversibly interconnected through increasingly complex communication networks, all the nations in the world have come to share a common historical trajectory.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Globalisation could take place in services, capital and ideas, making it a notoriously imprecise term; but what it meant most often was making it cheaper to trade across borders – something that seemed to many at the time to be an unquestionable good. In practice, this often meant that industry would move from rich countries, where labour was expensive, to poor countries, where labour was cheaper. People in the rich countries would either have to accept lower wages to compete, or lose their jobs. But no matter what, the goods they formerly produced would now be imported, and be even cheaper. And the unemployed could get new, higher-skilled jobs (if they got the requisite training). Mainstream economists and politicians upheld the consensus about the merits of globalisation, with little concern that there might be political consequences.
Globalisation: The Rise and Fall of an Idea That Swept the World
Nikil Saval
What we need to understand and do in order to survive seems to be continually outstripping our abilities.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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