Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.
This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against ...
Locational or country-specific advantages have been popularized by Harvard's Michael Porter in The Competitive Advantage ofNations.24 Porter studies the advantages a firm might gain from operating in a particular country.
Combining historical analysis with current affairs, economist Stephen D. King provides a provocative and engaging account of why globalization is being rejected, what a world ruled by rival states with conflicting aims might look like, and ...
Valerie Hansen, an award-winning historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration.
Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.
Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe. All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.
Karen Lehman and Al Krebs , " Control of the World's Food Supply , " The Case against the Global Economy , ed . Mander and Goldsmith , 126 . 48. Alexander Goldsmith , " Seeds of Exploitation , " in The Case against the Global Economy ...
The article went on to note that McDonald's Corp. said it found the call center idea interesting enough to start a test with three stores near its headquarters in Oak Brook , Illinois , with different software from that used by Bigari .
A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions. The world is...
But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In this work, Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels Petersson make the case that globalization is not so new, after all.