Globalization liberates: human rights worldwide.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Citings - Brief article

Is GLOBALIZATION good for freedom? Classical liberals argue that it is, but critics respond with a less attractive story in which elites repress their restive subjects so rapacious multinational corporations can exploit natural resources and labor.

A recent study by Indra de Soysa, a political scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati, an economist at the Georg-August University in Germany, supports the rosier view. The paper, published in the January edition of the social science journal Kyklos, uses a measure of globalization that includes not just economic policies but social factors...