Globalization is both an active process of corporate expansion across borders and a structure of cross-border facilities and economic linkages that has been steadily growing and changing as the process gathers steam. "This process sows the seed of its own destruction, as it serves a small global min...
When the United States and the United Kingdom imposed trade barriers in the early 1930s in response to the economic recession that soon became the Great Depression, they made it harder for other countries to resist also going down that path, by either provoking retaliation, which Canada did to the United States, or setting an example that affects the political economy of tariffs in other countries. ...
The first great expansion of European capitalism took place in the 16th century, following the first circumnavigation of the earth in 1519 to 1521. ... This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ...
