Michael Neri Development Days An Indian answer to the discontents of globalization By Michael Neri September 9, 2011. Globalization is the mantra of mainstream development economists, but it can and often does erode democratic rights and even livelihoods. This much we now accept without too much debate and contradiction, thanks to the persuasive empirical and theoretical studies of Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and the more polemical works of Canadian author and anti-globalization activist Naomi Klein. Logically, similar effects should have been very visible in India, which has now become substantially...