ABSTRACT
Economists normally define globalization in terms of the integration of markets, but Michael Mann has argued that this focus on the economy neglects the three other main drivers of globalization, ideological, military and political factors. The fact that everyone knows that this is the case and that globalization, under its previous name of 'internationalization', has a much longer history than this, seems to be neither here nor there as far as this debate is concerned. Eventually, when a sufficient number of countries had been recruited to this monetary union based on the Tobin Tax and greater transparency in international financial affairs, a compulsory stage could be rolled out at a higher rate of taxation but offering correspondingly more protection. The United States’ Surgeon General’s claim in 1967 that ‘it is time to close the book on infectious disease’ is held up as a canonical moment because, in retrospect, it actually marked a turning point and upsurge in infectious diseases.
