Problem
Making globalization work by Joseph Stiglitz
Summary: Globalization is a concept that's been around for years. It promises to improve the lives of people in developing nations by increasing communication, trade and commerce. However, many countries have protested against globalization because they feel it has made their lives worse off instead of better off. The problem isn't with globalization itself but how it's being managed.
Many people who have been affected by globalization - workers in the US whose jobs were taken away by cheap labor, farmers in developing countries who can't compete with subsidized crops from Western countries, health care advocates fighting skyrocketing drug prices, conservationists and indigenous peoples struggling to maintain their resources and cultures - agree on five points.
The rich nations have set the rules in their favor, so much so that poorer nations may be worse off than they were before globalization. Globalization promotes material values over environmental or human concerns, and has undermined democracy in some cases.
Globalization has negative effects on developing and developed countries. For example, Western practices have led to hostility in some cultures.
Task
Your evaluation of how globalization affects various tale characters, as well as their interactions with one another and with society at large. Does this work have any "lessons" to teach us? Is there anything we could use in the reality?