The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
We are used to thinking about the effects of globalization and outsourcing in terms of winners and losers: how these trends harm certain classes of American workers or benefit consumers. Barry Lynn, Fellow at New America, goes beyond the stereotypical debate about whether this economic revolution is good or bad to expose the dangerous underside of our new global economic order in his book, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation.
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
Lynn shows how today's economic system is a global industrial commons that is extremely fragile, and increasingly so. The real question Americans need to ask today is whether this production system is safe. Is it structured so we can count on it to provide us, given almost any foreseeable natural or political disaster, with the food and clothing and medicine and machines we need to live?
End of the Line makes clear that right now the answer is no. Our global industrial system is so tightly geared that any of a long list of normal, everyday disasters -- terror attacks, regional wars, insurrections, earthquakes, strikes, epidemics -- can lead to potentially catastrophic shutdowns of the system. End of the Line is perhaps the single most devastating indictment of laissez faire economics in a generation, based on factual evidence gathered by one of the few reporters who understands the ways today's global corporations really work. Michael Lind, Whitehead Senior Fellow at New America, moderates what promises to be a provocative and informative discussion.
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS:
"The threat that Lynn identifies is real, and it is clear that CEOs, shareholders and legislators should take note of what he has to say."
USA Today
"A sobering read."
The Washington Post
An "engaging polemic" that "offers realistic suggestions for how the U.S. government might make the world a more stable place, beginning with a greater willingness to use its antitrust clout."
Bloomberg
"A fresh argument against globalization, focused not on offshoring or trade imbalances but economic security."
USNews
Participants
- Barry C. Lynn
Fellow, New America Foundation - Michael Lind
Whitehead Senior Fellow,
Program Director American Strategy Project
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