The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy

This extraordinary book explores the spread of globalization. The authors - journalists on Der Spiegel - provide an account that is highly informed, yet extremely readable. They show how internationalism, once an invention of social-democratic labour leaders, has firmly changed sides. Now more than 40,000 transnational corporation play off their own workers - and different nation-states - against one another.

The book opens with a fly-on-the-wall account of a seminar attended by the leaders ...