Chapter 1,2,8

 Before reading these chapters, I really only thought of globalization in the economic sense. However, chapter 1 illustrated that community became more accessible due to the invention of the internet. This reduced the effect of the “tyranny of place” for many people (a term I learned in this chapter). I think chapter 2 did a good job of explaining how several of the drawbacks of globalism are due to institutional factors, and not globalization itself. Institutional reform is needed to ensure the poor benefit from globalization as much as the rich. I learned a lot about the people that get left behind when the rest of the world expands via globalization. Chapter 8’s summary of neoliberalism was useful to me as I wasn’t very familiar with the term.