Lessons in global commerce (from an early East India Company employee)

• Main Author: SOON, Emily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Early modern; East India Company; exchange; globalisation; modernity; post-modernity; trade; William Mountford; Asian Studies; Political History
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3386; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4643/viewcontent/Lessons_in_Global_Commerce_Emily_Soon.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

International trade hurts local communities. It causes economic hardship at home and destroys the environment, while the culture of consumerism it fuels is destroying our values and way of life. Similar sentiments to these recur across the media today: this so-called backlash against globalisation i...