The demise of globalization is written about and the rise of nationalism and the nation-state that globalization was suppose to wipe out is written about in this clear detailed book called "The Collapse Of Globalism", by author John Ralston Saul. He dismisses the economic theories that had predicted a new global order would put economics above culture, language, civilization, and religion in a world with much conflict as ever as before between competing groups fighting for smaller shares of needed resources. The promised future of a world with free trade is explained and its failure is the premise of this book. The miser of open-markets and its dire consequences is one of main reasons the backlash against this order has arisen.
Sal says the aura of inevitably surrounding globalization that criticism and resistance was imperceptible allowing this insane process to proceed and wreck harbor on much of the world in the short-term cost advantages that made a small class super wealthy and more politically powerful. The ignorance of globalists in understanding g how human societies change slowly was something this economic theory should of been prevented and not allowed to accelerate as it has because it brought profits to a few already at the top. Global economics came to be a tool to weaken governments, weaken tax bases and force deregulation who it could create a corporatist private technocracies that hoard all of the wealth for their selfish global purposes and wars of accumulation.
The author points out how much of this was done deforming economical thought in departments of economics around college campuses as neo-conservative think tanks helped spend money to influence professors for resigning to this theory.
Mr Saul shows how globalism has produced more monopolies and squashed innovation as corporate gigantism is what runs economies now around the world. In a world where mergers and acquisitions act just to move money around getting opting accomplished aside from making demand for more money printing to keep unprofitable companies afloat and pockets of those in finance full. Its purpose seems to be to enforce job insecurity and ability of rulers to cut costs and make people suffer under this false system that was promised to be better for everyone. This book gives a good history of the rise of globalization and its eventual fall as people resist and fall back on ethnicity and importance of culture against the onslaught that tried to united the world under free markets. Te growing disconnect between globalist systems and the lives people live and are being squeezed by is often discussed and laid blame for the increase of brutal conflicts the world has seen since the late eighties.
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