Global thanks

Many thanks to all of you who commented on the "what is globalization?" post. It's still open, of course, for further comments. I've been pleasantly surprised by how intelligent, interesting, and sometimes poignant the comments are. I should have expected this of Phronesisaical, Majikthise and By Neddie Jingo! readers. Clearly, it's a question that people are thinking about or that prompted readers to think further about. This is helpful for me in that I tend to study globalization from a rather theoretical point of view, and, to be candid, I'm fairly tired of the standing theories and I don't just mean Thomas Friedman's nonsense.

By the way, I picked up a copy today of John Ralston Saul's new book, The Collapse of Globalism. I've only read a couple of chapters thus far, but it's very much worth a read. It's what we would have called fair and balanced in the days prior to the invention of Fox News. The "collapse" of the title is not so much some actual disappearance of globalization as it is a discussion of all the complex corners of globalization, including most importantly those outside of what we refer to more precisely as "economic globalization." Plus, it has the extra bonus of mentioning Friedman on only one page out of 300. Nice job.