The history of Britain’s vote to exit from the European Union, known as Brexit, is not a tale of populist resentment toward globalization. It is a top-down story of leaders and elite ideology.
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From small towns, through a complex global production network, wool products have become tricky to ‘place’.
Millennials are less inclined than older Americans to intervene abroad, maintain superior military power or believe the US is an exceptional nation. What does that mean for the country’s future?
International trade policy requires three traits to be successful and lead to mutual prosperity. Trump’s is missing all three, as he showed at the G-7 summit.
Some experts argue globalization has been bad for the environment. But moving away from globalization could have other consequences that could be even more devastating for the environment.
Lotto scamming — a criminal enterprise largely targeting elderly Americans — is lucrative in western Jamaica, where it is thought to be behind 50 percent of all area murders last year.
The word globalization has lost its relevance and meaning with the emergence of the new global economy of the 21st century. Economists need a new word to help clarify our new economy.
How can we sort out the crisis of contemporary democracy?
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?
Data show that many people who consider themselves ‘global citizens’ also harbor strong national sentiments. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Climate change, rising food demand and globalization are putting pressure on world food production. New research explores the risk of failures in several of the world’s breadbasket regions at once.
The side effects of globalisation that have led to our current populist politics will not be successfully addressed by old-style industry policy.
Ever more people are stuck with shift work in a globalised economy that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Today, the U.S. is leading the robotics revolution. But without timely investment, China will overtake us, and could permanently put Americans out of work.
A new WTO trade deal is expected to provide up to $1 trillion in economic gains by eliminating bureaucracy. But that’s not its most important benefit.
Each Mardi Gras, 25 million pounds of beads hit the streets of New Orleans. One researcher went to the Chinese factories that make them – and spoke to the workers who believe the beads will be given to royalty.
Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
Globalization in its present form has generated economic inequalities, political uncertainties and cultural anxiety. Is there a way to move forward that benefits more people?
China’s goods are everywhere, thanks to the gains China has made from trade and foreign investment. Now that China wants to return the favor, the US may risk losing out if it chooses to turn inward.
A globalization expert shares two surprising tales of how the powerful winds of trans-Atlantic trade affected the quintessentially American holiday.
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University
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Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy Studies, Elon University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Galligan Chair of Strategy and Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Boston College
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Kent
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Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Associate Professor in Chinese and Asian Studies, UNSW
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Professor and Director of the PhD program of the Silver School of Social Work, New York University