But John Micklethwait, the author of "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea" and U.S. editor of "The Economist", disagrees.

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Both the enormous material contribution that globalisation has brought to the world and the reservations that many people feel about it are well described by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, two senior journalists at The Economist.

ECONOMIST: Economic globalisation