Buy This Book - A Shill

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Since I have little of my own to say these days, I'd like to draw the attention of all seven B&E readers to a book released yesterday.

End of the Line by Barry C. Lynn discusses the dangers of globalization in terms even economically-challenged stunods such as myself can understand. While Thomas Friedman exclaims in his unintelligible and celebratory way that THE WORLD IS FLAT -- woo-HOO! -- Barry offers a counterpoint: globalization is not just exploitative, but also bad for business and the economy. And while I haven't actually read it yet, I plan to.

Barry's book might turn out to be a nice companion piece with the documentary "Darwin's Nightmare." The mightily-fished Nile perch is widely considered to be the savior of Tanzania, creating a thriving export economy. Unfortunately, while 50-ton cargo loads of fish are air-freighted out of the country, cargo loads of munitions come in. The Euro-owners profit enormously, and the result in the country's interior is famine, prostitution, AIDS, and civil war.

Plus, the predatory Nile perch (like our recently-immigrated-to-Queens Snakehead fish) is non-native to Tanzania, has destroyed the rest of the fish population in Victoria Lake, and has now begun to eat its own young. Before we know it: Mad Fish Disease.

And while I haven't actually seen the documentary yet, I plan to.

Happy days here at B&E.