Perhaps the closest France has to a new-generation leader prepared to try to reconcile French public opinion with globalisation is Mr Sarkozy.
The fundamental question for the advanced industrial countries is not, as many suppose, whether democracy is compatible with globalisation, but whether democracy is compatible with liberty.
This model served the world well for long, but with globalisation - money and goods flowing easily across nations - the world is beginning to look like a single economy.
Companies establish matrix-management systems to deal with globalisation, appoint task-forces to examine new technologies, and add ever longer meetings until employees' brains try to gnaw their way out of their skulls.
It was a feature of the French election campaign that poorer voters were disillusioned with the benefits of globalisation, with the European project and the prospect of prolonged austerity.
Thus, correct measurement of global inequality leads to, if we want to reduce global inequality, our championing the industrialisation of the poor countries along with the globalisation that allows us to purchase those products.
She maintains that the legal framework has not kept pace with the realities of globalisation.
It is essential if we are to integrate fully with the process of globalisation.
These new technologies, combined with demographic shifts and globalisation, will have a profound impact on the future of SMEs.
It is how we reconcile openness to the rich possibilities of globalisation, with security in the face of its threats.
Worse, obsessed with the idea that globalisation threatens the social contract in rich countries, Mr Rodrik almost forgets that both rich and poor countries stand to benefit enormously from trade.
Authorities in Italy are preparing to deal with an expected 120, 000 anti-globalisation demonstrators from hundreds of protest groups with agendas as diverse as global warming to third world debt.
In the recent past this demand would have coincided with a period of financial globalisation that allowed many governments to rack up debt cheaply.
IMF, fits in with liberal notions of managing globalisation.
But they have done so in part for reasons that have less to do with the shape of political institutions and the merits (or otherwise) of politicians, than with lifestyles, technology and globalisation.
So the final chapter of that book charting Australia's boozy history might end with a chapter on the globalisation of the economy, and a row of schooners producing profits that would flow offshore.
Nevertheless the necessity of embracing globalisation does not come with the carte blanche of unconditional acceptance.
Globalisation continues to combine with whizzy new information technologies to boost productivity.
Well the effects of globalisation and our interdependence with other countries, the new network electronic communications means that we're also vulnerable in other ways - cyber attack bringing down the networks, pandemics, influenza, the First World War, DNA's now on the Internet, energy policy - all of these bring insecurities and potential threats to our country quite apart from...
Mauritius is many economists' favourite example of how a poor country, with few natural advantages, can make globalisation work to its advantage.
The draft EU constitution now has more opponents than supporters in Finland, but then the wind of globalisation has swept over Finland with a harsh hand over the past year.
An even odder thing about this bunch of demonstrators is that they seem to be out of step with their country's general sentiment about globalisation.
This is not a healthy state of affairs, and it is one that science must address, both by engaging more with the wider world and by pursuing the globalisation of science more vigorously than ever.
Now, as globalisation confronts each country's workers with a wider range of competitors, Labour chants the mantra of employable skills.
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Globalisation is creating the opportunities for those with the assets, skills and, crucially, the education needed to operate in increasingly competitive markets.
Mr Stiglitz's tirade has struck a chord with many opposed to what became known as the Washington consensus and with many who, unlike Mr Stiglitz, see globalisation as a negative, destructive force.
The globalisation of the world economy, together with declining demand for manual labour and the simplistic belief that this must put nations increasingly in competition with one another, has lately given investment in knowledge a political resonance it lacked before.
One has to do with accepting that there will be some Western victims of globalisation.
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With Argentina's default, they feel, perhaps globalisation has peaked.
The mix of unstoppable technological change with the apparently unanswerable intellectual defeat of central planning has made globalisation appear inevitable: only its speed and its consequences seem open to debate.
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