#globalization

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#globalization #money #now #only #people

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#hostile #i #necessarily #other #think

The Truth about America’s Silicon Valley- Angels in the Silicon Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.- John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant ↗

— Richard Theodor Kusiolek

#globalization #legal-system #technological-evolution #change

If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices. ↗

— Dani Rodrik

#economics #globalization #instituions #politics #business

I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it. ↗

— Bill Maher

#humor #politics #society #change

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#end-of-man #extinction #globalization #last-generation #mass-extinction

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#become #care #does #globalization #must

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#democracy #difference #globalization #ideas #inspirational

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #day #dollar #globalization #illiterate

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#about #affect #cell #cell phones #computers