Conference of 2009. Topics covered include the environmental implications of globalization; wealth, poverty, and consumption …; global trade; transnational corporations; and multilateral and private finance. …

perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume … a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization …: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a …

In the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high …-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate—which led to a sometimes heated exchange on the role of … trade versus the role of technological change in explaining wage movements—continues today, with the focus now shifting to …

evaluates the significance of globalization for governmental trade policies and public attitudes about regional alliances. …As trade liberalization and the fragmentation of production processes promote greater international exchange of inputs …, economists must adjust their thinking on trade issues. Transport costs have plummeted, and the difficulties of communicating …

effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain … globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United …

commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading … trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. The world rapidly became global between the early nineteenth century and World … War I, and the global trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising economic divergence between industrial and …

commodities (agricultural or mineral products) while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and Poverty, leading … trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. The world rapidly became global between the early nineteenth century and World … War I, and the global trade boom occurred simultaneously with rising economic divergence between industrial and …