Instead of focusing on jobs lost to the globalisation of information technology, Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics in Washington looks at globalisation's power to reduce prices and so help spread new technology, new practices and job-creating investment through the economy.

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In one camp are the forces of globalisation: not just McDonald's and other multinational firms but everything from the economics department at the University of Chicago to the World Trade Organisation.

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