Book Forum 

# Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures 

Date and Time 

March 4, 2003 1 - 2:30 PM EST 

Location 

Auditorium/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

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

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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