Article: Globalization, slow down!(FEATURES)(PLANET)

Byline: David R. Francis

It doesn't take a degree in economics to see dangers in globalization. An emerging China and India - with low wages, cheap exports, and rising technological abilities - are causing layoffs and depressing wages in the United States.

But when a renowned economist points to the same risks, more people begin to listen.

Is it time to slow down the march toward free trade?

"It is going to become so big a problem that some slowing down is going to be politically popular - and has some merits," says Paul A. Samuelson, Nobel laureate and author of an economics textbook that has educated millions of students over the ...

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