{"id":435,"date":"2008-09-19T04:27:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/09\/19\/dani-rodriks-weblog-alter-globalization\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T04:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T09:27:13","slug":"dani-rodriks-weblog-alter-globalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/19\/dani-rodriks-weblog-alter-globalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Rodrik&#039;s weblog: Alter-globalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t studied this enough to even start forming an opinion.<br \/>\nemphasis mine from the excellent Dani Rodrik&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/rodrik.typepad.com\/dani_rodriks_weblog\/2008\/09\/alter-globalization.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As one might expect, the book takes swipes at the usual suspects: the Washington Consensus, the IFIs, the MNCs, Tom Friedman, and Jeff Sachs.  Against the growth-focused and globalization-centered views of these institutions and commentators, Robin and John argue for a localized, community-based, self-sufficient model of development.  What many others would celebrate as real development <strong>(for example the spread of commercial farming for export in the Philippines)<\/strong> they see as the destruction of local communities.  They write: &#8220;We stand at a moment marking the end of what may well be the most destructive development era of modern history.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rodrik.typepad.com\/dani_rodriks_weblog\/2008\/09\/alter-globalization.html\">Dani Rodrik&#8217;s weblog: Alter-globalization<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t studied this enough to even start forming an opinion. emphasis mine from the excellent Dani Rodrik&#8217;s blog here: As one might expect, the book takes swipes at the usual suspects: the Washington Consensus, the IFIs, the MNCs, Tom Friedman, and Jeff Sachs. Against the growth-focused and globalization-centered views of these institutions and commentators, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/19\/dani-rodriks-weblog-alter-globalization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dani Rodrik&#039;s weblog: Alter-globalization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}