SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Maynard Keynes, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
9 Feb 2017
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30% of beef eaten in canada comes from the us, australia, new zealand and uruguay (brym 2012) Between 1991 and 2011 number of countries with a macdonald"s 59-119. 33,000 restaurants over 50% outside us (macdonald"s 2011) Increasing emergence of global brands (i. e. mcdonalds) & more industrialized food processes. Largest 175 economic entities in the world 109 are corporations (sales) and 66 are countries (gdp) Wal mart annual revenue almost 2. 5 times the gdp of singapore (52nd on the list) (white. Oxfam 2014 richest 85 people own as much wealth as poorest 3. 5 billion . Almost half of the world"s wealth is now owned by just 1% of the population. The wealth of the 1% of richest people in the world amounts to trillion: 65x total wealth of the bottom half of the world"s population. A very singular snapshot of a sobering perspective in terms of globalization: colossal disparities (i. e. global wealth)
