WorldChanging: Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse?
For the last three decades, it’s been more or less assumed that globalization was a force that moved in only one direction — towards ever-greater integration. And due to the logic of global trade, the assumption of ever greater integration led to the prediction that manufacturing would continue to move from countries with low labor costs to those with even lower labor costs and even looser laws, while supply chains would tend to grow ever-longer and more complex. The world would grow flatter.