Tag: europe
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Prosperity, Then Peace
Tracy O (ASA) I recently wrote about how globalization could make the world a much safer place. The logic is essentially this: countries that have significant business interactions are much less likely to go to war. A China that relies on exports to the West probably won’t start a war with anyone, and a West […]
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Globalization as Entanglement
JohnLeGear (ASA) Globalization has bad rap. Some of it is, no doubt, deserved. The practice is great at giving us (in the “rich world”) poorly made plastic doodads that we don’t need, but at prices we can’t resist. By doing so it’s probably increased the amount of raw materials needlessly wasted, and encouraged the desire […]
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‘Falcons sign Japanese reciever from NFL Europa’
Perhaps you remember what I said about surprising headlines, but this is probably at the top of the list of surprising headlines. Apparently, the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons just signed a Japanese wide receiver, Noriaki Kinoshita, who had been playing in the Europe league. And though I can’t even tell you how many ways this surprised […]