“Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").”

—  Jim Stanford

Part 4, Chapter 21, Globalization, p. 254
Economics For Everyone (2008)

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