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Monday, April 3, 2006 12:00 AM

The zero-sum globalization game nightmare

Robert Reich asks Joseph Stiglitz a hard question.
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  • Wednesday, April 5, 2006 09:03 AM

    Way to miss the point

    Making globalization work for the poor is like making slavery work for the slaves. The whole point of globalization is to allow the rich to make even more wealth. *If* the middle class and poor can get some crumbs, great. If not, who cares. It was never about us in the first place, except as a way to break the institutions we had put in place to get a piece of the pie.

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