What Will Globalization Do to Languages? A Freakonomics Quorum

What Will Globalization Do to Languages? A Freakonomics Quorum. At the New York Times Freakonomics blog, they ask whether globalization will indeed result in the hegemony of English, as has long been promised/threatened. "We gathered up some wise people who spend their time thinking about such things — Christian Rolling, Mark Liberman, Henry Hitchings, and John Hayden — and asked them to answer our question."