What makes news nowadays is the growing list of mainstream economists who are questioning globalization’s supposedly unmitigated virtues.So we have Paul Samuelson, the author of the postwar era’s landmark economics textbook, reminding his fellow economists that China’s gains in globalization may well come at the expense of the US; Paul Krugman, today’s foremost international trade theorist, arguing that trade with low-income countries is no longer too small to have an effect on inequality; Alan Blinder, a former US Federal Reserve vice chairman, worrying that international outsourcing will cause unprecedented dislocations for the US labor force; Martin Wolf, the Financial Times columnist and one of the most articulate advocates of globalization, writing of his disappointment with how financial globalization has turned out; and Larry Summers, the US Treasury chief and the Clinton administration’s “Mr. Globalization,” musing about the dangers of a race to the bottom in national regulations and the need for international labor standards.
While these worries hardly amount to the full frontal attack mounted by the likes of Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prize winning economist, they still constitute a remarkable turnaround in the intellectual climate. Moreover, even those who have not lost heart often disagree vehemently about the direction in which they would like to see globalization go.
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If globalization is to survive, it will need a new intellectual consensus to underpin it. The world economy desperately awaits its new Keynes.Dani Rodrik, The Death of the Globalization Consensus, Project Syndicate
진정한 법의 세계에 온 것을 환영한다. 이 현실을 어떻게 헤쳐 나갈 것인가? 잊지 말아야 할 것은 모든 변호사는 현실주의자여야 한다는 점이다. 변호사는 법조계가 어떻게 움직이는지, 정치적 성향이나 야심, 다른 인간적인 요소가 실제 재판에 어떤 영향을 미칠지에 대한 의견을 제공하여 돈을 버는 직업이다.
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이 승자독식의 세계에도 이상주의는 필요하다. 하지만 이상주의가 유치해지지 않으려면 현실주의라는 필터를 통해 세상을 바라보아야 한다. 건설적인 냉소주의 또한 필수적이다. 하지만 냉소주의는 이상주의와 현실주의 사이에서 균형을 이룰 때만 아름답다. 균형을 잃은 냉소주의는 대책 없는 이상주의보다 더 유치하며, 더 천박하기까지 하다.
앨런 더쇼비츠 (심현근), 미래의 법률가에게 (86-87), 미래인
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"Now, the more you sweat here, the less you'll bleed in battle. My father taught me…… that fear is always a constant……, but accepting it…… makes you stronger."
King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), 300 (Zack Snyder), Warner Bros.
RollingStone: What have you learned about yourself during the campaign?
Barack Obama: I've learned two things, and I think these two things are connected. One is that the older I get, the less important feeding my vanity becomes. I've discovered that I don't get a lot of satisfaction from being the center of attention, but I do get a lot of satisfaction about getting work done. And that, in turn, has led to a confirmation that I have a very steady temper. I don't get too high when things are high, I don't get too low when things are low, which has been very helpful during this campaign and is reflected in the people I hire and how we run our organization.
RollingStone: Change is the byword of the campaign and the definition of your strategy. Can you describe what change is? What does it look like? Not in policy terms, but what change you want to bring to America as a whole.
Barack Obama: I want people to feel connected to their government again, and I want that government to respond to the voices of the people, and not just insiders and special interests. That's real change. I want us to think about the long term and not just the short term, whether it's climate change, energy policy, how we're educating our kids, what kind of investments we're making in our infrastructure, how we're dealing with the federal budget and national debt. I want us to think intergenerationally, something we used to do more of and we have lost. I want us to rediscover our bonds to each other and to get out of this constant petty bickering that's come to characterize our politics. That's not to say it's possible or even desirable to squash real policy arguments, but the tit-for-tat, "gotcha" game that passes for politics right now doesn't solve problems. I want to get beyond that.
Jann S. Wenner, A Conversation With Barack Obama (080710), RollingStone