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by John Micklethwait


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  Index

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  A

  p. 365 ABCToys, 99

  Académie Française, 119, 183, 334

  antiglobalization and, 268

  Accenture, 69, 89, 232

  Accidental Empires, 215

  Acer, 67, 227

  actionace.com, 117

  Adamkus, Valdas, 154

  Adams, Scott, 234

  Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), 168

  Adult Video News Awards, 80

  Afghanistan, xxiv

  Africa

  corrupt governments in, 257

  debt mountain for, 254

  poverty in, 252

  shortage of telephones in, 37

  standard of living improvements, 255

  AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area), 24

  air and water pollution, 261

  air conditioning, impact of, 33

  airports, new security measures in, xxi

  air transport, 35, 194

  Akademgorodok, Russia, 213, 214

  Albania, 143

  Alderwoods Group, 86

  Alert International, 153

  Allen, Paul, 91

  Allen, Woody, 39, 56

  Allende, Salvador, 19

  AlphaBlox, 210, 335

  al-Qaeda, xviii, xxiv, 25

  Altair 880, 32

  Amazon.com, 38, 39, 207, 214

  American Idol, 192

  American Patriot movement, 274

  American Way of Death, The, 86

  America Online, 101, 214

  Amnesty International, 153, 253

  Andersen Consulting, 69

  Anderson, Benedict, 144

  Andrade, Marcos, 256

  Andreesen, Marc, 215

  Angeli, Norman, 6

  Angus Reid Group, 280

  Annan, Kofi, 167-170, 181, 268, 338

  achievements and limitations, 169

  and changing the UN, 171-172

  ant and the silversword, 308-309, 327

  Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, xxii

  anticapitalism, in the United States, 6

  antiglobalization, xviii, 267-288

  among businesspeople, 278

  antiglobal groups, 271-274

  in developing countries, 19

  dialectical relationship to globalization, 269

  free trade fundamentalism, 276-277

  in humanities departments, 277

  and politics, 279-283

  prosperity-destroying protectionism, 277

  and the Seattle riots of 1999, 270-271

  antitrust actions, 147-148

  Apollo Group, 93

  Arab world, effects of lack of freedom in, xxix-xxx

  Aral Sea, pollution of, 20

  Argentina, 23, 24, 151

  banking system in, 56

  border disputes, 156

  collapse of, 25

  currency board, 179

  default on debt, xxii

  p. 366 exchange-rate policy, 59

  mobile phone use in, 42

  protectionism in, 18

  unemployment rate in, 254

  Arsenault, Raymond, 33

  Arthur Andersen, 58, 323-324

  Asahi Shimbun, 318

  Asea Brown Boveri, 137, 222

  ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations), 151-152, 287

  Asia

  auditing practices in, 58

  business training schools in, 72-73

  economic collapse in, 57

  educational system in, 298, 300-301

  open markets in, 293

  pan-Asian empire, 287

  Association of Victims of Pollution and Bad Living, 259

  Astor, John Jacob, 15

  Atlanta Olympics bombing, 271

  AT&T, 36, 101, 103

  audiovisual materials, exempting from free-trade agreements, 186

  Aum Shinrikyo, 27
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  Austin, TX, 211, 213

  Australia, subsidies to logging industry, 262

  Austria, 152

  autarky, 12, 15

  authoritarianism vs. democracy, 60-61

  automobile industry, 64-66, 102

  See also General Motors

  in Brazil, 65-66, 245, 256

  number of cars per person, 259

  tariffs on cars, 10

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  B

  Babbage, Charles, 32

  Baby Bells, 36, 38

  baby boomers, aging of, 319

  Bain, 69

  Bajaj Auto, 127

  Baker, Raymond, 253

  Balls, Ed, 240

  Baltzell, E. Digby, 228

  bananas, trade war over, 286

  Band-X, 31-32

  Bangalore, India, 212-213

  Bangkok, currency devaluation in, 52

  Bangladesh, 335

  mobile phone use in, 43

  poverty in, 252

  Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 179

  Bank of America, 125, 302

  Bank of Cyprus, 330

  banks, consolidation of in America, 313

  Bank Sarasin, 311

  Barbarians at the Gate, 102

  Barcelona, anti-English language movement in, 186

  Baring family, 50

  Barnevik, Percy, 168, 222

  Barrales, Ruben, 217

  Barrett, Craig, 39

  Bartlett, Christopher, 135

  Basel Capital Accord, 165

  Bastiat, Frédéric, 112-113

  Beate Uhse, 83

  Beddoes, Zanny Minton, 176

  Beedham, Brian, 160

  Beijing, PCs in, 32

  Belgium, 152

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 129

  Benso, Camillo, 6

  Berlin, Isaiah, 276

  Berri, Claude, 186

  Bertelsmann, 192

  Beveridge, William, 88

  Bezos, Jeff, 207, 235

  Bhagwati, Jagdish, 56, 113

  “Big Bang,” 52-53

  Bilderberg, 224-226

  Binder, Alan, xxi

  bin Laden, Osama, xviii, 25, 123, 273, 274

  effect on globalization, xx-xxv

  importance of, 160

  bin Mohamad, Mahathir

  See Mahathir bin Mohamad

  Bismarck, Otto von, 87, 88

  blacks in the workforce in Silicon Valley, 219

  Blair, Tony, 240, 279, 294, 295, 301

  on global finance, 166

  Bloomberg, Mike, 298

  Bloomsbury group, 4, 16

  Blue Macaw project, 66, 245, 256

  Bluetooth, 132

  Bobo, Dwight, 244-247, 253, 257-258

  Bobo, Jo Ann, 255

  Bob’s Classy Lady, 79

  Body Shop, The, 125

  Boeing, 103

  Bonsignore, Michael, 222-223

  book and magazine publishing industries, 189-190, 192

  borders

  building borderless trade corridors, 143

  Canadian-American, 157-158

  disputes over, 156

  effects of American border laws, 157-158

  Mexican-American, 156-157

  Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 161, 162, 168

  BP-Amoco, 103

  Braas, 248

  Brace, Dick, 116, 117

  Brand You 50, The, 317

  Brazil, 24, 167

  car manufacturing in, 65-66, 245, 256

  p. 367 currency devaluation in, 50, 52

  environmental problems in Cubatao, 259-261

  IMF help for, 178

  losers from globalization, 250-254, 257

  murders in São Paulo, 252

  protectionism in, 18

  rain forests in, 259, 261, 262

  shortage of telephones in, 37

  slums (favelas) in, 250-251, 254

  unemployment rate in, 254

  Brent Spar rig, 275

  Bretton Woods, NH, meeting at, 12-16, 51, 164

  British Telecom, 30, 31, 130

  Brown, Jerry, 278-279

  Brown, John Seely, 208-209

  Brown, Tina, 192

  Browning, John, 230

  Bryan, William Jennings, 279

  Buchanan, Pat, xix, 109, 110, 239, 278

  Budapest, pornography business in, 83

  Budweiser, global markets, 105

  Buffett, Warren, 91, 211, 304

  Bulgaria, financial survival in, 55

  Burnham, James, 17

  Burrough, Bryan, 102

  Bush, George, 161, 338

  Bush, George W, xxii, 25, 60, 162, 240, 338

  and Afghanistan, 160

  foreign policy under, 159

  on global finance, 166

  signs agricultural bill, xxiii

  tariffs on steel, xxiii, xxv, 25, 112

  on the United Nations, 171

  business schools, 70, 231-232

  in Asia, 72-73

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  C

  Cable & Wireless, 314

  Cadic, Oliver, 146, 148

  Cairncross, Frances, 32

  California, banning of English as a second language, 155

  Camdessus, Michel, 172

  Canada, xx

  education in, 300

  films and television in, 197

  health system in, 158

  protectionist measures in, 186

  Canadian-American border, 157-158

  Cantarella, Paolo, 67

  Capital Cities/ABC, 120

  capital controls, 51, 59, 176

  capitalism

  effect on the nation-state, 145-147

  theoretical model of, 337

  and the winner-take-all market, 202

  capital markets, 55-59

  accountability and, 60-61

  deregulation of, 102

  effects on developing countries, 60

  encouraging imprudent lending, 58-59

  growth of, 54

  history of, 56

  volatility in, 55

  Carbocloro, 260

  Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 253, 254

  Cargill, 125

  Carnegie, Andrew, 303, 304

  Cartoon Network, 185

  Cartwright power loom, 120

  Carville, James, 146

  Castells, Manuel, 238

  Castro, Fidel, 293

  Cemex, 127

  Centre National de la Cinematographic 196

  chaebol (South Korea), 46-49, 61, 62, 71, 102-103

  Challenger, Gray and Christmas, 234

  Chamberlain, Joseph, 6

  Chambers, John, 36

  Charles, Prince of Wales, 268

  Chicago, educational system in, 298

  child labor, eradicating, 113

  Children’s Scholarship Fund, 301

  Chile, 22

  border disputes with Argentina, 156

  foreign fund managers in, 89

  foreign-owned banks in, 59

  free trade in, 55

  China, 23

  Communist Party of, 51

  emigration of people from, 5

  free trade in, 55

  job insecurity in, 309-310

  mobile phone use in, 42

  production of sex aids in, 83

  subcontracting in, 127

  textile industry in, 248-249

  China Europe International Business School, 72

  Christian Identity, 271

  Chrysler Corporation, 101, 146

  restructuring of, 65

  Churchill, Winston, 17, 157

  Cisco Systems, 36

  Citibank, 51

  Citigroup, 51, 302-303

  citizenship, 5

  dual, benefits of, 154

  City Year, 305

  civil service, in America, 149

  Clarke, Arthur C., 37, 41

  Clemenceau, Georges, 185

  Clinton, Bill
, 50, 149, 159, 181, 184, 240, 279, 291, 294, 338

  education and, 301

  p. 368 in South Korea, 62

  sympathy with Seattle strike, xxv, 282

  clusters, successful, 206-210

  belief in meritocracy, 206

  collaboration, 207

  enthusiasm for change, 209

  generous opportunity, 210

  high tolerance for failure, 206

  inclination toward sharing wealth, 210

  obsession with the product, 209

  penchant for risk, 208

  reinvestment back into the cluster, 208-209

  threat of rival clusters, 213-215

  tolerance of treachery, 206-207

  why some fail, 214-215

  CNBC, 230

  CNN, xix, 191

  CNN International, 230

  coal industry, in Britain, nationalization of, 17

  Coca-Cola, 104-105, 226, 269

  opposition to, in France, 185

  ties with McDonald’s and Disney, 119

  Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 146

  Comdex, 226

  Committee of Twenty, 164

  Common Agricultural Policy, xxiii, 25, 257, 285

  Communist Manifesto, The, 329, 339

  communitarians, 336-337

  Community Foundation Silicon Valley (CFSV), 217, 218

  companies, American, success of, 313-315

  “comparative advantage,” 4-5

  Competing for the Future, 71

  computers, 35

  computer clubs for toddlers, 300

  incompatibility among, 103

  Concept of the Corporation, The, 70

  Condition of the Working Class in England, The, 330

  “conquest of location,” 39, 41

  conservatism, 6

  Conservative Party, Britain, 20-21, 276

  Constitution of Liberty, The, 21

  container ships, effect on globalization, 33-34

  Cook, Philip, 202

  Cooper, Robert, 151

  Córdoba, 242, 243

  corporations, transnational, increase of, 23

  cosmocrats, 70, 221-241

  the agency man, 227

  analyzing by nation, 230

  attitude toward life, 228

  British, 241

  Carvilleman, 227

  in commerce, 226

  definition of, 226

  desire to stay in touch, 229-230

  disappearing perks, 235

  dressing alike, 228-229

  in the emerging world, 238

  emphasis on cosmopolitan consumerism, 229

  exercising by, 229

  as a “global ruling class,” 224-226

  hold on political parties, 240-241

  insecurity of, 233-236

  and the Internet, 232-233

  isolating themselves, 239

  loyalties of, 228

  number of, 230-231

  overwork and, 234-235

  perils of placelessness, 236-239

  professional-service firms, 232

  rootlessness of, 239

  “sabbaticalman,” 226-227

  self-employed, 226

  superficiality of, 237

 

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