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by Alan Shipman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; Reprint edition (5 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840463597
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840463590
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.8 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 371,882 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The 'No Logo-ers' need to switch sides. Global business can redistribute wealth, transfer technology and make the world work more effectively - for the benefit of all. The WTO, the IMF and others are the activists' best hope for steering our panicked planet off the rocks of inequality, oppression and environment-eating technology. But there's more to globalisation than Golden Arches by the Golden Temple, Cadillacs cruising the Valley of the Kings. Communities robbed by capitalism's 'invisible hand' are voting with their feet, going after the First World wealth currently denied them. Opening borders to exchange is the only alternative to closing them against runaway migration. Alan Shipman explains why globalisation is good - why it can spread the profits and spare the trees - and how multinationals will undermine the market economy and private property far more rapidly than the reddest-toothed revolutionary.


About the Author

Alan Shipman is an upcoming and unorthodox writer, journalist, and independent market analyst. A regular commentator for the BBC and the Guardian, he lives in Cambridge.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hard to swallow - but worthwhile reading, 4 Feb 2003
The 'problem' with this book is that it challenges the ideas put forward by books like 'No Logo' and 'Fast Food Nation.' Where as they took a, mostly populist, view that globalisation and capitalism was destroying our world and causing damage to many communities this book takes the absolute opposite view. This book is a clear and unashamed champion of capitalism - it sings the praises of the free market loud and clear. The book argues that everyone can be a winner in the free market - consumers, producers, shareholders, the western world and developing world alike. The arguments are put forward in a clear and sensible manner in the most part.

The book is must read for two groups of people. Firstly, those who believe in the free market and will soon regard this as their primary text of knowledge, information and supporting arguments. Secondly, those who subscribe to the anti-globalisation 'No Logo' viewpoint - who should find their views questioned and, in places, attacked. Those who take no view point in the global business good vs. global business bad debate may be more then a little turned off as the book is both a little heavy and technical in parts as well as (shamelessly) one sided.

That said, the book is easy to read and mounts a rare and refreshing defence of the free market and globalisation

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31 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly argued, 19 Sep 2002
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I bought this book to discover the counterpoints to the arguments in Naomi Klein's No logo. I found the points in this book were not put forward in a cohesive manner and there was very little evidence of proof to support his arguments. Unlike Klein's book where it is possible to argue on her interpretation of data this book reads like the arguments put forward by the bloke in the pub who only reads the tabloids.

This book does not really add anything to the globalisation debate.

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