Pausa: Largo Plazo (cont.)

Libro para empezar bien el semestre académico: Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. por Nayan Chanda.

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Muestra:
Pregunta: So, you're looking at the world's interconnectedness, and you [find] -- shall we call them Weberian ideal types? Warriors, preachers, traders, and adventurers. Real people; they're not "ideal," but in some sense they're a type that recurs again and again.
Respuesta:

And their motivation is universal. The lone traders of the Mesopotamian civilization who started out riding a donkey, going several hundred miles, have now been replaced by 63,000 multinationals who are taking their stuff on container ship and jumbo jet. Preachers -- Christian, Buddhist, Islamic preachers -- have now been joined by a new category of preachers, the people who are interested in human rights, environment. They want the world to live better and live well and follow certain principles. Adventurers, the Marco Polos and the Ibn Batutas, have been now replaced by hundreds and millions of tourists and migrants who are traveling the world looking for a fulfilling life. And then warriors -- Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan's warriors have been replaced by warriors of different types who may be actually flying a predator drone sitting in an air force base in the United States. But the nature of the decision or desire to dominate and establish a universal empire -- that survives. So, that's the point I try to make, that the four motivations that I have defined have been with us from the beginning of history.