Talk:Globalization and Its Discontents

message: Is the title a reference to Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents? Mattley (Chattley) 01:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.221.93 (talk) 05:29, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I always assumed so...I doubt someone of Steiglitz's intellectual stature would use such a phrase without understanding it's analogue  (and if he didn't his publisher would presumeably have!) Lexington50 (talk) 05:44, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
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message: ..is such a large amount of criticism required? Slizor 00:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong answer. Your personal feelings about the book have no bearing on the matter. Wikipedia should reflect a) what notable critics had to say and b) how the book was recieved by the public at large. The fact is that this book had a very positive reception, getting glowing reviews all over the place. The critics were few and far between. They were certainly more subtle than you suggest. All the criticism I have found comes from free market advocates and, while this does not make their criticism invalid, it hardly makes it notable or of interest to the reader. Advocates of the free market criticise people who don't advocate the free market. Amazing! Perhaps you want to add some material on forest-centred excretory behaviour to the article on bear? Really, you should have a look at how other articles handle balance and the incorporation of diverging views. You will note that Catholic Church does not have paragraphs and paragraphs detailing Ian Paisley's view of the papacy. There are thousands of articles on religion-related subjects that do not even mention the very widely held POV that THERE IS NO GOD! They do not need to, because anyone interested can go and read Atheism or some such. Similarly, anyone really interested can go and read about Libertarianism or Milton Friedman or the Free Market to their heart's content. NPOV does not mean that every article has to have at least a paragraph of your POV justified with some vague reference to Milton Friedman. Mattley (Chattley) 14:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Get your tanks off my lawn, Gibby. I'm not going to remove any of the criticism and never said I was. But this article is a very good example of where your goals as an editor conflict with those of this project. Demonstrating "what a piece of shit" this book is isn't what a wikipedia article should be doing. We should be accurately and fairly reflecting how it was recieved and reviewed. It is not about fighting. It is not about tracking down sources that support your POV to use as ammunition. It is about assembling points that reflect opinions about this book in a neutral, balanced and proportional fashion. You need to deal with that. Mattley (Chattley) 18:44, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  For such a short article.. 

message: In his book Stiglitz claims that globalization has not brought the promised economic benefits to some of the poorest nations in the world. This can be easily evidenced by the fact that during the last decade of the twentieth century the number of people living in poverty increased by almost 100 million.
This comes down to the question whether poverty is increasing or decreasing. Taking absolute numbers of the poor does not make sense in this regard. A random example: Say there are 100 poor. A generation later, 60 of them have managed to pull out of poverty, but the 40 remaining had 5 children each who also live in poverty. Thus, while we had 100 poor in the first generation, in the second we have 200 even though poverty was reduced by 60%. To measure whether poverty is being reduced, one should use its relative size, not the absolute number of people living in it.
I suggest removing the sentence "This can easily be evidenced (...)". Treos 08:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poverty increasing or decreasing? 

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message: The section "summarizing" the contents of the book is a completely POV essay. It needs to be redone by someone familiar with the book and its contents. Passages like "Stiglitz should know" and "Little wonder that thousands of activists -- who agree on little else -- brave barricades, tear gas, and slanted media coverage..." are straight out of a sympathetic book review and are totally inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. Elrith (talk) 12:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone is willing to write a completely new summary, then by all means please do so. The current summary looks and sounds like somebody's college essay that they just pasted up there. Thereisn0try (talk) 15:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV section 

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