Saving Globalization (ePub)

Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it's a process
that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled
and traded. It can't be stopped but it can be
slowed. It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the
Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost three generations
their opportunity and hope in many countries. More wealth has
been created in the past 60 years than in all of history.
After the most successful decade of sustained economic growth in
history, this progress is threatened.

Extreme inequality, corruption and environmental degradation
threaten the stability and legitimacy of many developing
countries' regimes. Anti-globalization and
anti-capitalist campaigners' confidence has been emboldened
due to the present economic crisis. Protectionist rhetoric is
growing as are the arguments to control and regulate markets.
Leaders are meeting to discuss how to face these problems and
create a new international architecture. How did we get to
this position? What should we do? What is it that determines
why some contemporary states are successful while others have
failed?

Saving Globalization departs from its analysis of
the globalised economy in the twenty-first century to answer these
question by tracing the development of what Moore considers to be
'the big ideas of history': democracy, independent
courts, the separation of church and state, property rights,
independent courts, a professional civil service, and civil
society. Democratic capitalism has worked for most people.
Why? It is a remarkable story, from the Greeks to the Geeks,
encompassing technological progress and the corrections and
contradictions between liberty and equality, technology, growth and
the environment. In defence of the many virtues and
opportunities that globalisation offers, Mike Moore makes the case
for a fresh and new approach to our international Institutions and
for domestic policies that promote equity and fairness.

The book controversially attacks the new enemies of reason and
evidence. The threats now come from all sides, especially
workers in developed countries who fear for their jobs. Mike
Moore is a political practitioner turned theoretician.