Theodore Levitt and "Globalization"
Sam Clements
SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Fri Jul 7 17:32:00 UTC 2006
The NY Times reported, in their July 6th story about his death, that he was <credited with coining the term "globalization"> in 1983. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business/06levitt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This of course has been picked up by every news source in the world.
Ironic, in that as recently as 25 June, 2006, ADS member Dave Wilton had antedated it to 1944. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0606D&L=ADS-L&P=R6896&I=-3
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