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El Fisgon, How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor. Translated by Mark Fried. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.
How To SUCCEED AT GLOBALIZATION, El Fisgon's newly translated cartoon history of western capitalism, leads the reader on a broad, sweeping tour through the history of modern economics with stops in (among other places) feudal Europe, nineteenth century North America, and present day Latin America. Already published in Spanish, this new addition to the American Empire Project (www.americanempireproject.com), provides a humorous and accessible introduction to globalization and "neoliberalism," which seems to actually be old conservativism.
El Fisgon -- the pen name of Rafael Barajas, one of Mexico's leading newspaper cartoonists -- sets the story within the...