Power and Super-Power: Globalization: What Would You Do? Posted by Heather Hurlburt

Four interesting answers to the question of what policy change the panelists would institute were they in charge:

Bob Kuttner:  institute controls on global capital and broaden our int'l trade organizations to consider social issues as well.

Lael Brainard:  Change domestically.  Make our workforce secure and prepared to manage a world in which the global workforce grows 70 percent, with the vast majority of those folks earning astonishingly low wages.  Only then can we manage any kind of global leadership on these issues. 

Kemal Devis:  We need a high-level leadership forum that functions better and has broader global legitimacy than the G-8 -- need a forum that brings in some large and small developing countries but can still make decisions.

Carol Browner:  Start a domestic initiative to fight climate change -- including mandatory targets and a trading regime -- and then use that success and legitimacy to regain the international role we began when our scientists brought global warming to the world's attention.

Whatever you think of these ideas, they'll give you something to chew on for a bit -- while we listen to Jim Leach.

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