Globalization

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This paper explains that the globalization of the world's economy began with the colonial powers, such as England and Spain, expanding their influence through trade into ever-expanding empires. The author points out that, after the Second World War, new world economists Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes developed the ideas upon which the current globalized economy is based. Its goals were to open up gradually global markets to the extent seen prior to the Great Depression. The paper relates that the success of the current globalization is possible because (1) consumers no longer prefer items made "at home" and (2) information technologies have expanded global business transactions to the fingertips of the individual.

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"Essentially, market forces are anticipated to help smooth out the bumps in our economy but cannot be expected to act alone. The United States, Friedman argues, as the dominant force in the world needs to take the lead. "Given these challenges and opportunities, the United States needs a strategy to make globalization sustainable and to ensure that we will always be able to compete effectively in this world." This strategy is, necessarily, strongly tied to governmental pressures and controls upon the extent and manner by which foreign markets can be utilized by individuals and corporations. Globalization needs to be used as a tool to help bring the rest of the world up to the level of the United States, not as a device to degrade the advances that America has fought so hard to attain."

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