Thomas Friedman uses the metaphor of the "golden straightjacket" to: Question 8 options: criticize globalization as a "race to the bottom" in terms of working conditions and environmental regulations critique neo-liberalism for policy proposals which, he argues, fly in the face of what he calls "the fundamental rules of economics" argue that globalization offers significant economic rewards to countries that will play by a stringent set of economic rules, which have as their over-arching principle government non-interference in the economy define what is meant by an "alter-globalizationist" perspective on globalization