![]() ![]() He shows how some undesirable outcomes of globalization have tended to promote economic protection in the name of sovereignty, controls on capital movements, cultural backlashes and increasingly severe restrictions on immigration bordering on xenophobia.Ĭrouch offers a reasoned course correction to globalization and warns against a simple return to the past. The rise of Donald Trump and the Brexit debate have produced ever-expanding measures to reverse globalization.Ĭolin Crouch’s slim volume stands against the tide, providing a calm and nuanced argument as to why, for all its faults, it would be a folly to throw the globalization baby out with the bathwater. Most recent books on globalization have been critical of the phenomenon, denouncing it either as a corporate plot to take over the world or as a globalist, leftwing push to abolish nations and cultures. ![]()
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