Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Giddens at Cambridge
Tonight a bunch of us MBAs popped over to St Catherine's College to hear Anthony Giddens speak on Globalisation.
He described the three phases of Globn.: the scholarly debate as to whether it extisted (80s & 90s), the rise of the protesters in the mid 90s and the coming together of protesters and corporates to figure out what should be done.
He then said something interesting, that the most powerful driver of Glob. was not economics but rather communications technology, since that was what allowed Glob. to take place at all.
Giddens also spoke a little about the USA, and recommended that we get rid of Bush before the US can engage properly with the world again. This was met with a round of applause!
An useful evening all in all, even if I don't agree with his point that the media is keeping a check on corporate and governmental shenanigans (they may report it, but guess what - the people just don't give a damn!). I have to say, I'm more Silverstone than Giddens.
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