What Nutmeg Can Tell Us About Nafta
January 02, 2017 15:27
If you haven't picked up an Amitav Ghosh book yet, do read this essay and discover why he is one of our greatest writers...
"For many years the word "globalization" was used as shorthand for a promised utopia of free trade powered by the world's great centers of technological and financial innovation. But the celebratory note has worn thin. The word is now increasingly invoked to explain a widespread recoiling from a cosmopolitan earth. People in many countries are looking nostalgically backward, toward less connected, supposedly more secure times."
Read the full essay on the NYT here.
"For many years the word "globalization" was used as shorthand for a promised utopia of free trade powered by the world's great centers of technological and financial innovation. But the celebratory note has worn thin. The word is now increasingly invoked to explain a widespread recoiling from a cosmopolitan earth. People in many countries are looking nostalgically backward, toward less connected, supposedly more secure times."
Read the full essay on the NYT here.