ABSTRACT
The major theme of World Economic Forum, which has become the premier gathering of economists, futurists and globalized big business, was officially “Priorities for the 21st Century.” The conventional wisdom among the globalizers, who tend to see the world economy as one, period, is that all other power and institutions, in particular the nation state, must fall to its sovereignty. Another example came from Donald J. Johnston, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, as he explained how his organization operates in the new world milieu. It was Nathan Myhrvold, the chief technology officer for Microsoft Corporation which so often leads in idealistic, utopian ideas about the new technologies, who gave the most revealing answer to what the form of the new world would be. In contrast to the utopian ideas of the Internet globalizers and consensus-builders, labor leaders who must work in the collapsing labor market of Southeast Asia are distraught.
