Over the past 50 years, the world has experienced a massive change. The extensity, intensity, depth, and breadth of global financial, communications and transportation flows have obliterated distance through time. Given the speed at which these flows interact with our human condition, borders can be perceived as barriers to the efficient conduct of human interaction at best and at worst, catalyst which exacerbate gross inequalities in wealth and resource allocation in favor of the wealthy. While the current mantra of free trade and trade liberalization is applied to cross border flows of goods and communications, it does not fully come into being as long as boders exist as it prevent the free movement of labor. Given this and the obvious benefits of the free flow of goods and the capitalist system; aren't borders themselves anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal? What economic basis or moral justification exists for borders in todays globalized world?
2006-06-15
11:22:23
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