Forget about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The globalized world has been shaped by some larger-than-life people who are all but forgotten in modern times. Jeffrey E. Garten’s new book, From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives , pinpoints the 10 key people who changed the world and ushered in new eras of globalization, starting with a nuanced look at Genghis Khan and hopping to characters including a British prime minister and a Portuguese prince. Garten is dean emeritus at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches courses on the global economy and crisis management. He previously worked for Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton, and had an earlier career on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. Garten recently appeared on the Knowledge at Wharton show on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM channel 111 . He described how he chose the characters for his profiles and discussed the goods and ills of globalization.…