1. Economics and Global Capitalism
Neither markets nor the extant structures of governance appear capable of providing for all three conditions at once. ... The third charge reflects a more normative philosophical argument about the impact of globalisation on the structures of modern society. ...
Despite obvious differences, the similarities and parallels between the predicament of large portions of the population in the developing world and the residents of the urban underclass neighborhoods are quite striking. ...
INTRODUCTION Especially in the last decade a vast number of publications were done on the subject of increasing dependence in the world; changing the name from globalization to mc-donaldization, new-colonization or financial integration. However, whichever term is used, there is a social fact, by...
Many see it as a primarily economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration, of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment and capital flows. However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technolog...