The Eight Deadly Sins of Globalisation

Globalisation is one of today’s buzzwords, but it buzzes differently in different situations. In the world of political after-dinner speeches, globalisation increases prosperity, opens frontiers and makes everybody happy. In the real world, it arouses anti-capitalist feelings and has an aftertaste of job losses and the emigration of investments. “Global fear” from below – many critics and others who are the losers by modernisation connect internationalisation with cuts in the social system. A great deal has been written about the opportunities offered by globalisation, but eight possible deadly sins count against it ...