Globalization

The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping the world in their own image.

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringCompetition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty.

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope.

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope.

China's rise as an economic superpower has caused growing anxieties in the West.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century.

Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization.

What are the impacts of population growth?

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age.

Economic, social and cultural rights are finally coming of age.

Global crime governance has emerged as an important component of world politics.

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one.

In recent years, global historians have painted an impressionistic picture of what they call the 'connected world' of the seventeenth century.

Do we have the rights to optimism?

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945.

The rise of Asia, and China specifically, is the single most important force reshaping the world economy at the beginning of the 21st century.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

This book offers a new perspective on the economics of globalization, based on the concepts of firms' capabilities as the immediate cause of countries' wealth.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade.

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition.

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few years ago, and competition (or 'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for global competition.

This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy.

The huge expansion of new marketplaces and new retailers over the last fifty years has created a retail revolution.

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood.

We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms.

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe.

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

This innovative volume highlights the relevance of globalization and the insights of gender studies and religious studies for feminist theology.

John W.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades.

This book brings together a distinguished set of contributors from a variety of disciplines to examine current theories of institutional change.

International trade and the rapidly proliferating network of trade agreements have aroused passions for decades.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

Neoliberalism.

Gordon Brown, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Kung, Shirley Williams, and a dozen other leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressing moral issues which global capitalism must answer.

International trade and investment in services are an increasingly important part of global commerce.

John W.