Considering Globalization's Dark Side

The word "innovation" is often thrown around as if it were a panacea to all of the world's problems. Innovation, whether technological or otherwise, has certainly propelled the global economy ever forward over the past few centuries, but this movement has not always been so clearly one-directional. Perhaps the term "creative destruction," popularized by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, ought to accompany "innovation" in such discussions more frequently....