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...alarm rang almost two hours into yesterday morning's three-hour final for Social Analysis 78, Globalization and Its Critics, a popular class taught by University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Students were ushered outside--unsupervised--before being let back in to complete the exam...
Along with reminder e-mails sent to undergraduates who had not filled out evaluations from Registrar Barry S. Kane, UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, individual professors have been asked to notify their classes...
...order to determine whether globalization has flattened the world, of course, one must begin with a coherent conception of globalization itself. Friedman’s leans excessively on economics at the expense of sociopolitical and moral concerns, as his exchange in the book with Sandel illustrates...
...extended direct quotation that is among the book’s many illuminating moments, Sandel cautions Friedman: “A flat, frictionless world is a mixed blessing. It may, as you suggest, be good for global business. Or it may, as Marx believed, augur well for a proletarian revolution. But it may also pose a threat to the distinctive places and communities that give us our bearings, that locate us in the world. … Some of these inefficiencies are institutions, habits, cultures, and traditions that people cherish precisely because they reflect nonmarket values like social cohesion, religious...
...exploitation of cheap foreign labor but that the flat world may require trading one person’s unemployment for another’s economic liberation. But, confined so closely to his economic mode of analysis, Friedman has replied to a vastly different trade-off than the one Sandel posited. The critical issue is not merely to whom economic benefit is allocated at whose expense, but also to what extent it should be pursued at all in the face of competing claims...