Professor Bruce Greenwald’s New Book
Columbia Professor Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn have released their newest joint-venture: “globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job.” I spent as much time as possible in classes with Professor Greenwald (even before I was eligible to enroll for them), and can vividly hear him exclaiming the title. I have not yet read the book, but hope to pick it up this week. Here is a brief excerpt of the press release:
To its critics, globalization is a terrible development that makes almost everybody worse off and threatens the survival of the planet. They blame it for everything from mass poverty in Africa and Latin America to the falling living standards for workers in Europe and North America. In contrast, globalization’s advocates argue that it is the greatest force for good in human history, a powerful institution for improving the quality of life around the world. The underlying problem with both of these positions, says Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn, authors of Globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job, is that they are based on certain accepted truths that are either highly questionable or largely false.
You can read the press release from Wiley here.
Listen to Professor Greenwald defending his thesis on the Biz Radio Network here.
For more on Professor Greenwald, see the recent blog entries (here, here, here, and here) on the Columbia Business School Blog: Public Offering.
