The Dark Side of Globalization

October 22, 2015

The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano in 2010 shut European airspace and sent disruption rippling worldwide—an example of our interconnectedness (photo: Paul Souders/Corbis)

In This Episode

From global financial crises to cybercrime, globalization has its downsides. The director of the Oxford Martin School discusses the pitfalls of the global community’s ever closer union, and offers some possible remedies to its darker side.

Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University
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