Globalization shoved ethics to the side

"Globalization had shoved ethics to the side from the very beginning and insisted upon a curious sort of moral righteousness that included maximum trade, unrestrained self-interest, and governments alone respecting their debts. These notions were curiously paired with something often called family values, as well as an Old Testament view of good and evil. It somehow followed that if countries were in financial trouble, they were moral transgressors."  John Ralston Saul. The Collapse of Globalism: and the Rebirth of Nationalism.  2004