> Also commenting, economist Alain Minc writes in Le Monde (France,
p.1) that the
> opponents of globalization offer no counter-theory; they merely say
no to the
> system, even as they reap the benefits from it. The do-gooders of
the movement
> ought to ask themselves why countries of the Third World have not
joined their
> struggle. Why were the big developing countries so wary of
environmental and
> health norms at the WTO meeting in Seattle? Because they feared
that excessive
> regulation would turn into instruments of rich-country protectionism
at the
> expense of the poor countries. French farmers' union leader José
> Bové thinks he
> is missi dominici to Indian and Senegalese peasants, when he is
perhaps their
> worst enemy.
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Globalization is a theory?
Ian