Analysis of "In Defense of Globalization"

Jagdish Bhagwati is a proponent of globalization and its attendant economic system, capitalism, and that is made quite clear in the first section of his book, In Defense of Globalization. The first section, titled, "Coping with Anti-Globalization," addresses why critics of globalization can be dismissed, something he intends to do later in the book. There are numerous references to later chapters, for example, where he takes on critics from NGOs to young college-age protesters.

At this point in the book, Bhagwati freely dismisses his critics and their concerns as little more than "rubbish" even though he also indicates that he himself favors some type of control of globalization. One reference t

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