It lacks the over-emotional nature of some other anti-globalsation tracts, and at the same time he comes up with some extremely astute points. Particularly in this edition, in the update at the back, and his points re: the overtly political nature of globalisation, and the rise in fundamentalism precedes September 11th by about 2 years.
Which makes it even more interesting.

And it gave me a load of really interesting stuff to add to my Economics exam!