Forward to the Past - Globalisation's long history

Francis Wheen (2004)

In this excerpt from Francis Wheen's hugely enjoyable book - How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World - he concisely dissects and lays bare the contradictory, exaggerated and often historically short sighted claims and counter claims about globalisation made by a wide range of pundits, commentators and self-promoting academics and institutions.

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