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...unprecedented wealth in both rich and some previously poor countries. The world's economy has grown to six times its size since 1950, primarily on the basis of a tenfold increase in international trade. Free trade advocates believe global prosperity can be maintained and expanded only through an increasingly borderless economy, which requires standardized rules made by a universally accepted authority. That, they argue, is the only way to ensure fairness and avoid damaging trade wars...
...spokesperson at amazon.co.uk confirms that there has been "considerable interest" from overseas customers, which means that Scholastic, the U.S. publisher, is losing untold sales to British publisher Bloomsbury--an increasingly sticky issue of territorial rights raised by the borderless Internet. For now, Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America...
...previous work, Warner's methods in Bogeyman are culturally omnivorous, ranging over Goya, the Alien movies, the origins of the word boo and the many meanings of bananas. Best dipped into rather than read in one go, the book very much matches contemporary experience. "We live in a floating, borderless mass of impressions and images which come at us," Warner explains...
Kenichi Ohmae, author of The Borderless World, is a management consultant and founder of a satellite-TV business channel
...Think globally, act locally"--that is, have a common value system that transcends national objectives; serve international customers, shareholders and employees, regardless of the origin of the company. I liked his reference to the phrase in a business context so much that I used it in my book The Borderless World to describe a company that is in the final stage of globalization...