A truly fascinating book that demonstrates not only the inevitability of continued globalization but its virtues as well.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
...A well-argued book that should serve as balance to current negative accounts.
Booklist
In vanishingly short supply are books that are intellectually rigorous without being stuffy or inaccessible; which explain in plain words...globalization.... So in fact the world did need another book about globalization; Open World is it.
Economist
At last a good book about globalization...lucid and persuasive.
Financial Times
Philippe Legrain counters many predispositions, on the left and right, and sets the stage for a more useful debate. The issue, he explains, is not being for or against global trade but how to manage economic change for the greatest benefit to the most people on a global scale.
Bill Barnhart
Chicago Tribune
Legrain masterfully defines a middle ground between the contending forces for and against globalization.... In a rare and frank analysis...Legrain argues forcefully that the worst abuses usually associated with globalization are in fact caused by a continued reliance on self-serving policies by the strongest governments in the world....
Michael R. Kraig A rapid rebuttal of the flimsy critique of anti-globalization activists.
Independent
In this wonderfully lucid and intelligent book, Philippe Legrain takes on the many mistakes of the anti-globalizers. Globalization, he argues, is neither a label for Americanization, nor an excuse for worldwide corporate domination. It does not eliminate local cultures. Still less does it make governments irrelevant. It is a chance for mutual enrichment, not a route to global impoverishment.
Martin Wolf Should be required reading for politicians and voters during this election year. Explains real injustices that exist in the trading system. Provides ample evidence of how corrupt and bad governance stunts growth in poor countries.
Mike Moore
New York Sun
Makes a compelling case for an ever-continuing advance toward globalization. Legrain has written a truly fascinating book that demonstrates not only the inevitability of continued globalization but its virtues as well.
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Here is a book that refreshingly argues for rather than against globalization. Legrain, writes in a style suitable for a general audience, but his work contains sufficient content to interest specialists in the field. He effectively addresses many if not all the objections of those opposed to free trade.
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Legrain…has written a robust defense of globalization that combines the virtues of journalism with analytical rigor.
Finance and Development
Here is a book that refreshingly argues for rather than against globalization…. Recommended.
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