Thomas Friedman: The Global Marketplace and the Common Good

The signature event of the 2010-2011 Notre Dame Forum, "The Global Marketplace and the Common Good", featured Thomas Friedman, the influential Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist from The New York Times. Friedman has examined a wide range of subjects in his work, including globalization and worldwide economic issues, religious fundamentalism and terrorism, and the Middle East conflict. He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and has had four best-selling books, most recently The World is Flat and Hot, Flat, and Crowded, both currently best-sellers.

The event was moderated by Norah O'Donnell, chief Washington correspondent for NBC News' 24-hour cable channel, MSNBC. Following Friedman's remarks, O'Donnell moderated a roundtable discussion featuring Carolyn Y. Woo, Martin J. Gillen Dean of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business; Gary Anderson, professor of theology; and Notre Dame senior economics major Shanna Gast.

Forum Web site: http://forum.nd.edu/

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[musermame]

In the bible, there are those we call prophets who preach to the public about sin and the end being near. T.F. is a modern day prophet in that regard. I hope that everyone can take his advice and ruminate over what is true and what is false. His injection of reality into our 1984esque media is refreshing and sobering. I encourage everyone to watch this with an open mind.

[flowewritharoma]

old-fashoned value is freedom of liverty.

[BenkaiDebussy]

@Meh9000 Yeah - Friedman isn't exactly the brightest bulb.

He ignores the fact that powerful countries investing in poorer countries inevitably results with the powerful shackling the poor with debt. This is also a problem with micro-finance; the idea is to give poor people/countries the ability to start a business/get an education, but in reality most end up taking other loans to pay off the interest/principal on the original loan - the lending country gets its money though, so who cares?

[Meh9000]

"... leverage so much technology, that one American can do the work of 20 foreign workers, so that one American can be paid the same as 20 foreign workers." (this starts at ~ 1:34:00)

The technology that enables "that one American" to do the work of 20 foreign workers, enables that one foreign worker to do the same.