The Inverted World #
June 3rd, 2008 | In Worth Considering
Roger Cohen made the interesting — if intellectually dubious — contention yesterday that the world isn’t actually flat, it’s inverted:
To understand it, invert your thinking. See the developed world as depending on the developing world, rather than the other way round. Understand that two-thirds of global economic growth last year came from emerging countries, whose economies will expand about 6.7 percent in 2008, against 1.3 percent for the United States, Japan and euro zone states.