Arms Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by…

— Paul A. Baran

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

— Roberto Azevedo

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

— Azim Premji

We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years…

— Condoleezza Rice

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money…

— Chrystia Freeland

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism,…

— James C. Scott

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in…

— Paul A. Baran

Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand…

— Arancha Gonzalez

....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is…

— Patricio Aylwin

I was a hardliner with regard to colonialism, which had occupied Africa and large parts of the world. We were waging an armed struggle,…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to…

— Kofi Annan

“In combination, these political and economic forces suggest that globalization, at least of the post-Columbus kind, is simply not inevitable. In this book –…

— Stephen D. King