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Globalization

Globalization: a mega trend with as many positives and advocates as negatives and critics. But despite the controversies, it continues apace, spurred by the flow of information, money and goods all around the world. Read these summaries to keep up-to-date on the economic and political aspects of this phenomenon.

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9 Book

The Precariat

The New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing
Bloomsbury, 2014
9 Book
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
8 Article

The end of the system of the world

A critical point has been reached; decoupling is for real this time.
Noah Smith
Noah Smith, 2022
8 Book

The World is Flat

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 2005
7 Podcast
Bruce Edwards and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
IMF, 2022
8 Article

The End of Globalization?

What Russia’s War in Ukraine Means for the World Economy
Adam S. Posen
Foreign Affairs, 2022
7 Book

Six Faces of Globalization

Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
Nicolas Lamp and Anthea Roberts
Harvard UP, 2021
9 Book

Signals

The 27 Trends Defining the Future of the Global Economy
Jeff Desjardins
Wiley, 2021
8 Article

The Price of Nostalgia

America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat
Adam S. Posen
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Book

Failure to Adjust

How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy
Edward Alden
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2016
Book

Trade Wars Are Class Wars

How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Michael Pettis and Matthew C. Klein
Yale UP, 2020
7 Book

Soros on Soros

Staying Ahead of the Curve
George Soros et al.
Wiley, 1995