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...Genoa seem to think. For them, globalization is bad news--the triumph of giant corporations, the trashing of the earth, the end of self-government. But globalization's positive side is, intriguingly, a message of a hot new book. Since it was published last year, Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, has been translated into four languages, with six more on the way. It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy--whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli--that's impressive...
...left-wing activists in the 1970s. Globalization, he said, had a dual nature: subordinating men while also "providing them with the opportunity to rebel against capitalism." In fact, you don't have to endorse Empire's authors' broadly Marxist perspective (I don't) to find the book fascinating. For Hardt, a professor at Duke University, the modern world is characterized by the absence of a power center. The U.S. may be mightier than any other nation, but with economic and political resources widely distributed, it cannot always call the shots--ask Jack Welch. That much has been said before...
...grander scale of things, this more resembles accounting error and poor planning than it does fraud in my book," Hardt said...
...Hardt noted the respect Wei has earned within her field and amongst her colleagues...
...somebody who's been around for a number of years. She has an impeccable reputation with integrity and excellence in geriatrics," said Hardt...