About five years ago I thought very seriously about writing a book debunking the globalisation myths perpetuated by the anti-globalisation movements. But serious thinking and collecting material was all I ever got round to, and then I saw that Philippe Legrain, far more obviously qualified than me to write on the subject, having been at the World Trade Organisation, wrote just such a book, in 2002.
I've recently been thinking that there should be some kind of book looking at European immigration and migration, maybe debunking or analysing anti-immigration fears and, yes, Philippe Legrain has just published a book on that.
I was amused to see that he also thinks, as do I, that Thomas Friedman's book 'The World is Flat' is one of the most overrated books of last year. In fact I was going to call my third vapourware book, based on my previous blog 'Hightext', 'The World is Bumpy', a guide to communicating virtually across borders (e-mails, teleconferencing etc), which, I think, despite what Friedman says, is anything but smooth and flat. Well the book's not entirely vapourware, as I have written an outline and a few thousand words of it. I better get on with it.
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