... globalized economy would "lift all boats." Nor was it understood that viable alternative perspectives and analyses existed.The goal of the IFG, therefore, is twofold: (1) Expose the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and (2) Seek to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities which revitalize local economies and communities, and ... development economists in the advanced industrial societies and by many among the modernizing elites in the developing countries as well. A key assumption of modernization theory, that of individ...

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