Dealing with the downside of globalization

When the world is increasingly becoming a global village, globalization is something that a nation or an individual finds hard to ignore whether one likes it or not. How to look at this inevitable process and let more people share its positive results in an even broader way and minimize its negative effects has become a global concern.

Reading the book Winners and Losers in Globalization by Guillermo de la Dehesa may provide one with partial answers to such questions as what exactly globalization is, what its costs and benefits are and who loses and who benefits from this process.

As current chairman of the Center for Economic Policy Research, de la Dehesa, a Spaniard, undoubtedly approaches the topic from an economic perspective. And, there is nothing wrong with it since globalization is indeed a process of economic integration in a global sense.