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Poor man's hero: controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world.

From: Reason  |  Date: 12/1/2003  |  Author: Gillespie, Nick

IF THERE IS any moral certainty underpinning today's anti-globalization movement, it's that desperate actions from sometimes violent street demonstrations to public crop burnings to dressing up as giant sea turtles--are needed to protect the traditions, forests, and human rights of the Third World against the rapacious greed of the First. The anti-globo left has little doubt that anyone who favors international free trade, open markets, and the cultural mongrelization they foster ...

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