I am trying to polish off an article tonight. All that remains is tracking down a few wayward references, and perhaps some folks on pen-l can lend a hand. I am trying to establish the argument that many on the left regard the globalization discourse as a distraction. It was reported here many moons ago that Frances Fox Piven gave a talk to that effect. Has anyone seen anything she has written downplaying globalization? Our own Doug Henwood has adopted a version of that position in debates here and, if I remember correctly, wrote a piece in LBO some time back lambasting liberal anti-globalizers (Korten et al.) Doug, if you're listening, could you offer a cite? And while I'm at it, does anyone know any other "globaloney" references I could employ? It's so much easier to absorb the general mood than keep track of who said what where. (I remember David Gordon's piece in the CJE, which is not in the Econlit database--CJE must not be real economics--but I can find it at the library...) FWIW, the paper I'm finishing is called "Actually Existing Globalization". I gave it at a conference here a month ago and now have to get it in shape for the conference volume. I will be happy to email a copy in WP8 to anyone interested. (I think I made this same offer a month ago and got a few takers. The latest version is near-final and, in good scholarly fashion, includes a long list of other authors who agree with me.) Peter Dorman
