Some things globalize more than others. We've often globalized capital, and we've globalized goods, but we haven't globalized labor. I think that one of the things that we're going to see with the rise of Asia, in particular, is more of a rebalancing on that. Some of the dynamics that we're seeing at the moment will have quite a chilling effect on the global flow of ideas.
It was supposed to boost prosperity and democracy at the same time. What really happened? According to the legal scholar Anthea Roberts, it depends which story you believe.