“Globalization is the environment in which we live. We’ve got one world. Get used to it. Make the most of it. Debating globalization? It’s like asking fish to debate the merits of living in the sea,” McNamee writes in his new book, The New Normal.

The United States may be the most powerful country in the world, but we can’t even control the value of our currency, much less the ebb and flow of world trade. And the truth is, the pain of globalization has been relatively small in comparison to the benefits,” McNamee writes.

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