Why we can’t unscramble the egg of global trade
ROSLYN KUNIN: Self-sufficiency and even reduced trade will lead to a much lower standard of living
Tag: Globalization
The Year 1000: a look at globalization’s roots
PAT MURPHY: Author Valerie Hansen demonstrates that the concept of international trading networks and linkages goes back a very long way (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
Recalibrating globalization in a pandemic age
PAT MURPHY: Who defines what’s essential and should thus be sourced domestically, even if it’s more expensive to do so?
They don’t build borders like they used to
CONSTANTINE PASSARIS: The modern border is porous, malleable and surmountable. It’s not an effective deterrent for undesirable political, social, medical or economic consequences
Why Trump will win in 2020
ROBERT MCGARVEY: Blame free-market globalization, and the accompanying wage stagnation and declines in middle-class living standards ($$)
Washington Consensus lit the fuse blowing apart the modern world
MCGARVEY: We’ve allowed market forces to replace a host of political-economic goals and considerations, and we’re far worse for it ($$)
The nationalist revival versus the globalist perspective
MURPHY: The ties that bind aren’t what they used to be – at least for some of us. For others, they are increasingly intense
Globalism trumped by Trump’s international vision
Many thought his staunch nationalism would kill the economy and spark international conflict. They were wrong
Stephen Harper returns, and he has plenty to say
MURPHY: The former Conservative prime minister has advice for us on Trump, economics, immigration and more
How soccer revitalizes nationalism
DOWBIGGIN It’s difficult to detach the World Cup from patriotism, even among the most disenfranchised of citizens
Internetization is globalization on steroids
An electronic empowerment has been unleashed by the information technology and communications revolution
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