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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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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
7 Podcast
Bruce Edwards and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
IMF, 2022
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

Six Faces of Globalization

Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
Nicolas Lamp and Anthea Roberts
Harvard UP, 2021
8 Article

The End of Globalization?

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

The Ages of Globalization

Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Columbia UP, 2020
8 Book

Failure to Adjust

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

Schism

China, America, and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System
Paul Blustein
CIGI Press, 2019
7 Report
Alicia García Herrero
Bruegel, 2020
Book

The Year 1000

When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began
Valerie Hansen
Scribner, 2020