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  • Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

    Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

    "The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures". Book by Richard Duncan, p. 232, 2003.
  • We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

    Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.68, Routledge
  • The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

    "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.
  • Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

    Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons
  • ....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

  • The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

  • [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  • In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

    Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
  • Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  • Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

    David Bornstein (2007). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition”, p.156, Oxford University Press
  • An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  • Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  • Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.

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  • The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

  • 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.

  • What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.

    Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.784, AK Press
  • It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

  • The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

    Taken   Successful   Past  
    "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.
  • It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

  • The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

  • We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a moral alternative to economic globalization and we will not rest until we see it realized.

  • Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

    "United States v. Columbia Steel Co., 334 U.S. 495". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 7, 1948.
  • Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

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