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S U B S C R I B E
Tuesday, 18 October, 2011
Foreign Affairs: Saskia Sassen on how the digitized world works
How have global cities been transformed in our digital era—and particularly by the growth of the financial world? Sociologist Saskia Sassen, a leading thinker on globalization, talks to host Philippe Mottaz. Sassen is Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in Geneva. Her books have been translated in more than 21 languages, and last week she was the keynote speaker of “Les rencontres internationales de Genève”:
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Excellent interview. I had never heard globalisation and the role of finance described with such insight. Have Warner and Stevenson back, but once in a while, go for such talks.
Andrew
Lausanne
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