In the theater of history, irony often plays a leading role. How did the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known — according to the World Bank lifting 1.5 billion people out of crushing ...

In the rich tapestry of globalization, countries often find themselves interdependent and connected. The essence of globalization has gained immense traction in recent years. On July 11, Harvard ...

As the world transforms into a global village, it closely intertwines the world’s economies. Globalization is a force that results in the movement of capital, commodities, people, and ideas around the ...

Utilizing globalization and transculturality for the study of the pre-modern world / Serena Autiero and Matthew A. Cobb -- From the field to the globe : the archaeology of globalization / Serena ...

There’s been a lot of talk these days that globalization is dead, even reversing — and for good reason. It seems that many of the factors that had been driving globalization have run out of steam. The ...

A few weeks ago, I spent a good deal of time with small business owners who came to the United States from other countries. They're names, no doubt, were familiar: Peter Chan, Kenny Lee, Dr. K.

Perhaps the defining characteristic of 2012—in contrast to 1987 when Global Finance launched—is the interconnectedness of the world. Those in the US now have more in common with those in Indonesia ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

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The world’s modern environmental problems began or were greatly exacerbated by the Industrial Revolution, which reduced the ...

I had thought globalization was a good idea. The developed world was rich, and it seemed as though outsourcing was going to diminish the wealth discrepancy between the rich and poor, decreasing the ...