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A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly original treatment of a fiercely debated issue, Tyler Cowen makes a bold new case for a more sympathetic understanding of cross-cultural trade. Creative destruction brings not stale suppositions but an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2004Princeton University Press · 192 pages · 9780691117836
- Hardcover · English · 2002Princeton University Press · 192 pages · 9780691090160
- Other · English · 2009Princeton University Press · 192 pages · 9781282935297
- Other · English · 2009Princeton University Press · 192 pages · 9781400825189
Cultural relationsCultureGlobalizationInternational relations and cultureRelations internationales et cultureEconomie de la culturePluralisme culturelCommerce