POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anthony Giddens, Global Governance, Global Brain
6 Apr 2016
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An english princess with an egyptian boyfriend crashes in a french tunnel, driving a. German car with a dutch engine, driven by a belgian who was high on scottish whiskey, followed closely by italian paparazzi, on japanese motorcycles, treated by an american doctor, using brazilian medicines! And this is sent to you by an indian, using bill gates" technology which he stole from the japanese. And you are probably reading this on one of the ibm clones that use. Philippine-made chips, and korean made monitors, assembled by bangladeshi workers in a. Singapore plant, transported by lorries driven by malaysians, hijacked by indonesians and finally sold to you by a chinese! The world"s 100 largest economies, 51 are now global corporations. The richest 1 percent of americans own 40 percent of all u. s. assets. The combined assets of 358 billionaires equal the combined assets of almost half the world"s population.
