English Speaking People and Globalization

About the Book

Most non-fiction books discuss problems and opportunities from the point of view of a particular discipline. Politics or economics, business, information systems, history, warfare, religion, philosophy, international relations, linguistics or whatever the principal expertise of the author may be. But academic knowledge has become so specialized that experts can no longer communicate with each other.

This book presents all of these subjects, briefly, as essential ingredients of a well-balanced mind. Specialists must step back occasionally and review their relationship with the rest of humanity.

Global men and women must be all-rounders, as many were in the Age of Enlightenment. We have lost the capacity to be all things to all people. The author hopes that his book will assist the intelligent world to re-consider the controversial aspects of modern life with an open mind.

Above all, people who wish to contribute to globalization should be able to read and write in English as well as in their home language.

The challenge to the present English Speaking People is to assist that process by all possible means, for the benefit of the world.

About the Author

For the first five years of my adult life I served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. That taught me the value of discipline, intelligently imposed.

After WWII I spent three years at the London School of Economics. I became aware of the unlimited potential offered by cooperation between all factors of production in a free enterprise economy.

I emigrated to Canada in 1955 and became an executive in a multi-national chemical corporation. I soon realized that global relationships are more productive than economic nationalism, tariff protection and commercial insularity.

Twenty years later I joined the largest engineering company in Canada which specialized in overseas development projects. They needed an English speaking economist in South East Asia. Our work with the World Bank and other financial contributors was generally successful and led to the emergence of the Asian Tigers. Our offers of assistance to countries in Africa and some other parts of the world were unfortunately not always successfully implemented mainly due to political complications.

That experience caused me to believe in globalization as the only basis for continuous progress, economically, politically and socially, as part of a unified world. That process has begun but is by no means completed. The author of this book urges all men and women of good will to pick up the torch.