ABSTRACT
Given the noise made by vast numbers of anti-globalizers, most politicians can be forgiven for thinking that globalization imperils our economic well-being and—what is far more troubling—the social agendas that we value. 1 Thus, Prime Minister Tony Blair, former President Bill Clinton, and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, the social-democratic proponents of the “Third Way,” lament economic globalization, even as they pursue it, as a phenomenon that “needs a human face.” Of course, if it needs one, it lacks one. And the former President of Ireland, Mrs Mary Robinson, having finished her term as UN Commissioner for Human Rights, seeks an “ethical globalization,” implying that globalization is not ethical.
