“The ages of globalization” with Professor Jeff Sachs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- We are justified to say that we are living through a new age of globalisation, which Professor Jeff Sachs calls the Digital Age. The hugely disruptive changes were already with us before Covid-19, but now we’ve been hurled head-first into the new age.
It is marked by enormous geopolitical, technological, and environmental disruptions, posing great risks as well as opportunities. To understand the Digital Age better, it is enormously valuable to gain a historical perspective.
Professor Jeff Sachs' new book The Ages of Globalization and this talk, explores the interactions of technology, geography, and institutions throughout human history, describing seven ages of globalisation and the nature of societal change from one age to the next.
I live in a valley- where the valley floor was flooded to provide electricity- in the 1980's. This was followed, nationally, by neoliberal economics reforms. In NZ instituted by a left wing government. From was local base this was a godsend. It delivered the nation.
I am somehow convinced that I am connected to every person on the planet at a distance of no more than 25,000 miles.
By we the professor meant Europeans. There is much evidence that other cultures were privy to the fact that, not only were there distant lands with other cultures and phenotypes, but that the earth was round. Discovering and understanding the latter was what led to knowledge of the former. That the earth was round though was not common knowledge like nowadays it was know by key individuals and scholars. It was such filtered down information that triggered the Europeans on their quest of so called discovery. The other cultures that knew were not necessarily driven by the same reasons as the Europeans, which is probably why conquest was not that urgent and rapid. If you are not a European you should be aware that when a man like the professor speaks he speaks from a Eurocentric perspective; the dominant perspective in universal education since the European discovery that the world was more than a few caves, mountains, rivers and forests. When the west say ¨we¨ and ¨all men¨ they are strictly referring to Europeans; not all human beings. If you ever forget this you will never be able to escape the traps and snares set for you. Man is rotten to the core; all man. It is just the Europeans turn to demonstrate their brand of evil. However, we all get our turn to dance around the fire before we all perish in it.
Agree fully. Haven't read the book, so I must be missing the details, but just watching this video at face value, a bit disappointing to not hear about the significance of the Indian Ocean as another major phase of globalisation. It was the first time that nations as far away as China is to East Africa started to trade goods, and possibly people too, with some awareness of the distances involved. That was at least a thousand years before Columbus and Vasco da Gama, maybe a couple of thousand years.
What if women were the leader's how different would it be?
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