Feb 04
The ravages which European (”free”) trade and globalization have wreaked on non-European lands since the beginning of its expansion in the 16th century could not be more graphically illustrated than by (an) observation of Bernadin de St. Pierre, a French eighteenth–century aristocrat. International trade, and the globalization of economic activity associated with it, have together shaped the modern world in almost every respect. The depopulation (a euphemism for the trans-Atlantic slave trade) caused by the demand in Europe for sugar and coffee that Bernadin de St. Pierre noted is but one of many consequences of international trade…
