This thesis critically evaluates the concept, theory and process of economic globalisation, which extends the widely held belief that capitalist firms now produce the vast majority of goods and services produced in the world (i.e. the commodification thesis), by asserting that this process of...

Educational institutions not only build human capital; they also shape culture. We present a model of cultural dynamics produced by cultural transmission through the education system. Groups that are culturally marginalized are also economically disadvantaged and exhibit various forms of...