chapter 1 globalism. globalism > localism = the emergence of: 1. an integrated world economy 2. a...
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GLOBALISM > LOCALISM = the emergence of:
1. An integrated world economy
2. A universal Westernized culture (individualism + capitalism)
3. Diminished Western nationalism
1. Companies that sell outside their home market.
2. Companies that offshore (manufacture abroad)
3. Companies with foreign suppliers
4. Companies that hire illegal aliens & the consumers who use the products & services of these companies.
5. Stockholders who invest in global companies.
6. Nations dependent on foreign natural resources.7. Nations that join the World
Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, or free trade agreements.
8. People who buy foreign owned brands & don’t even know it
9. YOU!
GATEWAYS TO GLOBALISM1. Global proliferation of
individualism culture & the emerging universal generation
2. Digital communication technology
3. Turbo-capitalism4. Media5. World Trade organization,
International Monetary Fund, International Standards org.
6. Oil7. Outsourcing of Western
manufacturing & computer services to Asia & other developing nations
8. Asian financing of Western government fiscal deficits
9. Economic power > Military
10. Free trade agreements
THE IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. The ideological exports of powerful nations often include their government & economic system (such as representative government & profit-maximization capitalism for the USA), as well as their culture (American pop culture).
2. Such exports are designed to advance the nation’s nationalistic agenda & open new export markets.
TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Global telecommunications infrastructure
2. The Internet & e-commerce3. Cross-border licensing of
patented technology between corporations
4. A universal computer operating system in place (Microsoft Windows)
POLITICAL ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Power of global government organizations (GGOs) over nations
2. Rise of non-profit governmental organizations (NGOs) to represent non-business interests around the world
3. Emergence of the International Criminal Court
4. Proliferation of regional free trade agreements (EU, NAFTA, etc.)
FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Worldwide integrated financial markets
2. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund
3. Instantaneous electronic transfer of funds across borders
4. Dollarization: consolidation of the number of currencies used throughout the world
5. “Hot money”--$3 trillion crossing borders daily
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Global consumerism spurred by giant global corporations & the advertising of global brand names
2. Emergence of middle class social structure in a growing number of developing nations
3. Greater international tourism & immigration
4. The emergence of a universal generation of young people who share more cultural similarities than differences
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Relatively easy movement of people, merchandise, technology, & capital across borders
2. Rising free trade in large part due to regional free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
3. Spread of capitalism to China, the former Soviet Union, & to developing nations
MARKETING ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Rise of the service sector, backed by intellectual capital (patented, copyrighted products) among developed nations
2. Sales of global brands with global product designs around the world
3. Emerging consumerism in former Communist nations
4. Rapid increase of joint ventures between companies in different parts of the world
OPERATIONS ASPECTS OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Off-shoring of manufacturing from highly industrialized nations to developing nations
2. Standardization of business technology & operations practices by the International Standards Organization (ISO)
3. Rapid informational flows across borders
4. Emerging ecological problems requiring proactive global cooperation
Fat Kodiak bears have a system working for them because they live near GOLDilocks. The system satisfies both their needs AND their wants. These fat bears have so much that they waste a lot of the luscious salmon scooped out of the gorged streams.
Mother nature has provided these bears with a system that takes care of their needs, but not necessarily all of their wants (they'd rather eat salmon than berries). They are not quite as big or fat as the Kodiak bears, but they are in good health.
Human land encroachment (colonialism & “turbo” capitalism) has ruined the feeding system of these bears, so they fend for themselves as best they can out of garbage cans. The garbage can bears aren’t served by GOLDilocks. They long to visit their kindred bruins who have it made in a better system, but those bears don’t share; they want MORE from GOLDilocks.
Who made Jerry’s clothes & cell phone? Who takes care of his luxstadium? House? Swimming pool? Lawn? Car maintenance?
Shopping? Taxes? Laundry?
Cooking? Crashed computer? Xmas
presents?
1. Skilled labor manufacturing
2. Computer hardware & electronics
3. Cell phones4. Medical equipment
1. Low-skill labor assembly (sports equipment, shoes, bicycles, etc.)
2. Local, non-exported agriculture
3. Under-employment & unemployment
1. Small farm agriculture
2. Oil, gas, minerals & other earth exports
3. Social problems stemming from historical colonialism, religious intolerance, & political dictatorships
•How can impersonal, invisible, uncontrollable capitalism be managed in C21 to bring its potential benefits to more of the world’s people?•Currently there is no agreed upon answer to this question.•Something is going to have to happen in C21 that didn’t happen in C20 for capitalism to serve ALL of the world’s people, not just a few.
GLOBAL CONSUMPTION PATTERNSThe USA (4.5% of population), Europe, & Japan currently consume 68% of the global economy, while the “BRIC” (Brazil, Russia, India, & China) consume only 10%. Obviously, global consumption patterns are not balanced, equitable, or stable. The 21st century will be a time of fluid change in global consumption & the capitalist system.
THE TWO-EDGED SWORD OF GLOBALISM
“There is no question globalism has been responsible for flourishing international trade and foreign direct investment, particularly for China, Brazil, India, and Turkey, to name just a few. But globalization has also generated imbalances in the market that have resulted in disastrous consequences both in the developing & developed worlds. Globalism ought to be good for all countries.”
UNBALANCED WORLD POPULATION
1.Current estimated world population: 6.3 B; 10.5B predicted by 2050
2.Asia, including India: 60% of global population
3.Africa: 15%4.Europe: 11%5.Latin America/Caribbean: 9%6.North America: 5%7.Oceania: less than 1%
Fareed Zakaria (foreign news editor for Newsweek magazine) says his new book is “not about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” This rise of “emerging” global economies (especially China, India, Brazil, Russia, & Mexico) has accompanied the 21st century decentralization of global power, the natural outgrowth of the fall of Communism in the late 20th century. “Power is shifting away from nation states, & the traditional application of both economic & military power have become less effective.”
KEY OBSERVATIONS BY ZAKARIA
1. The biggest challenge stemming from the “rise of the rest” is to “stop the forces of global growth from turning into the forces of global disorder and disintegration.”
2. Because the U.S. is the top world power, it will be most challenged by this new global era.
3. With so many other nations on the rise economically & politically, the U.S. must allow other nations to participate in running the world’s affairs.
4. American culture is not sufficiently globalized to deal with shared governance. Americans are “increasingly suspicious” of the new global order & are encouraged in their ethnocentrism by an “irresponsible national political culture.”
5. China currently has a larger supply of global currency assets than any other nation, reflecting its rising global status.
6. By 2040, India will be the 3rd largest global economy, behind the U.S. & China.
7. America faces a serious future growth dilemma stemming from its high indebtedness. “Americans are borrowing 80% of the world’s surplus savings and using it for consumption. We are selling off our assets to foreigners to buy a couple of lattes a day.”
8.“The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much greater gain later on.”
9. “For the past 2 decades the growing integration of the world economy has coincided with the intellectual ascent of the Anglo-Saxon brand of free market capitalism. The freeing of trade and capital flows and the deregulation of domestic industry and finance have both spurred globalization & come to symbolize it.”
10. “America is losing economic clout and intellectual authority, as emerging economies are shaping the direction of global trade so they will increasingly shape the future of global finance.”
11.“More than a new capitalism, the world needs a new multilateralism.”
12.“Critics claim that the Washington consensus or deregulation and privatization, preached condescendingly by America and Britain to benighted governments around the world, has actually brought the world economy to the brink of disaster. If this notion continues to gain ground, politicians from Beijing to Berlin will feel justified in resisting moves to free up the movement of goods and services within & between their economies.”
Not too many years ago, a sports team was sold to a foreign entity. I wondered, how much did these people know about baseball? It’s been happening, this selling off of America, for several years. I don’t know all that has been sold to foreign nationals and I doubt the average citizen is aware of this selling off of America. Not too long ago, some wanted to sell an American port business to a foreign nation. Recently, the Chrysler building was sold to another foreign concern. Now Budweiser is to be sold to Belgians. What’s left? If we average American knew what has been sold to foreigners, I would say we would not at all be pleased. (Letter to the editor)
1. Currency values2. FDI flows3. Geo-political power &
interdependencies 4. Importing & exporting
patterns5. Industry/corporate
profitability
BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS!
21ST century global megatrends usually arrive unannounced, unexpected, & leave a trail of uncertainty.
1.Global mortgage financing meltdown
2.EU member bail-outs3.Currency
protectionism4.Chinese defective
exports5.Rebuffing of Western
financial policy by China
1.Domestic unemployment in AG industry
2.Decline in AG exports & increase in imports
3.Standard of living benefits to DCs
1.Declining profits & stock prices in connected industries
2.Increased R&D for alternative resources
3.Decline in USA dollar
1.Increased consolidation & concentration of digital industry
2.Disruption of industry price declines
3.Digital manufacturers increase influence over software developers
DRAMA #5Expansion of NAFTA into the free trade agreement of the
Americas eliminates all trade barriers in North, Central, &
South America
1.Rise of corporate liquidations, concentration, & privatization in Americas
2.Rising FDI flow to Americas
3. Impetus for global free trade triangle
1. Employee lay-offs in developing nations
2. Stock price declines in outsourcing corps
3. Increase in “shadow” (illegal underground) corps
4. Longer workerhours in nations lacking
overtimepay
DRAMA #9
Asian nations pledge to base their
future economic growth on trading within Asia more
than with the West
1.Fall of Western currencies
2.Rise in stocks of Asian-based corps
3.Rise in Chinese geo-political
influence
1.Increase cooperation between largest EU economies
2.Rising FDI into Turkey-based corps
3.Rise of Euro4.Backlash of European
racism
DRAMA #11
The world’s existing regional free trade
agreements consolidate into a single, integrated
FTA
1.FDI, stock price, & currency declines in protectionist & mixed capitalism nations
2.Stock price increases in Godzilla corps
3.New pockets of unemployment & “creative job destruction"
1.Rising FDI & outsourcing in both nations
2.Rise in C & I domestic corps
3.More mergers between Western & Eastern corps
DRAMA #14
The Kyoto global warming protocol mandates that all
nations must cut CO2 emissions 10% annually for 10
consecutive years
1.Fall of profits & stocks of CO2-heavy corps
2.Fall of FDI & currencies in “red bulls” (nations living beyond their means) & rise in “green bears” (nations with resources to spare)
1.Increased USA taxes for law enforcement bulk-up
2.Rise of American racism
3.Increased drug cartel violence in both MX % USA
1. Increase in C. domestic corps
2. Increased FDI for entire region, especially for Asian entrepot nations (those who ship global exports to China)
3. Empowering Chinese-owned domestic corps
1.Legislation to curb outsourcing
2.Devalued dollar sparks global currency conflict
3.Rise of global protectionism
1.Complaints from Asian investors
2.More expensive imports
3.Subsidizing corps who manufacture in USA
DRAMA #1
New USA legislation mandates permanent
balancing of the federal government
budget within 5 years
1.Tax increases at national & local levels
2.Decreases in govt programs & rise in social problems
3. Prolonged recession
DRAMA #2New financial
legislation & higher interest rates
encourage Americans to save
more, consume less
1. Rising corp. equity but falling revenue
2. Declining dollar, eco growth, importing, FDI, Asian stocks
PRICE OF THE BUDGET CUTS AHEAD
1. Dampened eco growth2. Higher unemployment3. Declining value of
stocks, currency, FDI4. Gradually balancing
the budget5. Rise in social problems
DRAMA #1
2% annual increase in federal taxes for 5 straight years to finance temporary
aid program for eliminated govt.
workers
DRAMA #11States given mandate to
consolidate or eliminate 1/4 of
higher education institutions within
10 years
OECD undertakes long-term program of
significant economic subsidies to the
world’s least developed economies
(due to continued ineffectiveness of
GGOs)
Global insurance companies drop coverage of all “acts of God,”
including hurricanes,
tornados, & floods