Learn how globalization can lead to unprecedented economies of scale for firms across the world, leading to higher global efficiency and productivity.

Understanding the many facets and effects of globalization is difficult even for scholars well versed in economics and political science. So to the uninitiated, globalization can seem like an almost ...

The development toward a globalized world has progressed inexorably during the past 20 years - with borders blurring and countries and cultures converging. This makes it virtually impossible to ...

Twelve months is a long time in financial markets, and the phenomenon of globalization appears to have reached a fork in the road, with growth in emerging markets looking challenged. Is the ...

Globalization and innovation forces have helped increase returns for superstar entrepreneurs and corporations by boosting demand for their services. Over the last two decades, these forces have also ...

In the months before his death, Pope John Paul II had been preparing an encyclical on charity as a response to the phenomenon of globalization, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the ...

A new, federally funded, international research center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich will study globalization from an unusual angle. It will consider the complexities of worldwide ...

MIT professor David Autor is a leading economist studying disruptions to labor markets. His work covers everything from globalization to trade, and, as it turns out, viruses. Autor talks with Walter ...

Indian people pose in front of an installation to promote the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Mumbai on June 30. (Photo: AFP) “When the mind is at sea, a new word becomes a raft.” These memorable words ...

Globalization is under attack. The electoral victory of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of an aggressive nationalism in mainland Europe and around the world are all part of a backlash to ...

The globalization we knew and understood for most of the 20th century resembled more the globalization that emerged from the Industrial Revolution than it did the globalization we experience today.

Globalization, driven by new technologies and economic expansion, is underway with both positive and negative impacts. What role will the church play, and what are the implications for the ...