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Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

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Tuesday, March 4, 2003
12:00 p.m.

Featuring the author, Tyler Cowen, George Mason University; with comments by Benjamin Barber, The Democracy Collaborative University of Maryland.

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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. It is a commonplace that globalization is influencing local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Cowen looks through an economist's eye at an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes?

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