Globalisation

Our world is becoming economically fragmented

Even though globalisation may have peaked, it is far from being wholly reversed, and Western countries need to stop weaponising trade and economic policy.

The Next Globalisation

Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.

The irreversibility of globalisation

Politicians, media commentators, and economists have been far too hasty in predicting the demise of globalisation.

Getting Deglobalisation Right

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences.

The Asian Convergance / Why we need globalisation

From the Brexit vote to Donald Trump's election as US president to rising support for populist parties in countries like Germany and Italy, much of the electoral upheaval in Western democracies in recent years has been attributed at least partly to a backlash against globalisation. But globalisation does not deserve voters' ire.

Business & Finance / The globalisation of our discontent

Fifteen years ago, I published Globalization and Its Discontents, a book that sought to explain why there was so much dissatisfaction with globalisation within the developing countries.

The new socialism of fools

According to standard economic theory, redistribution only comes about when a country's exports require vastly different factors of production than its imports. But there are no such differences in today's global economy.

PROJECT SYNDICATE - BUSINESS & FINANCE / Globalisation and its new discontents

The failure of globalisation to deliver on the promises of mainstream politicians has surely undermined trust and confidence in the “establishment.” And governments' offers of generous bailouts for the banks that had brought on the 2008 financial crisis, while leaving ordinary citizens largely to fend for themselves, reinforced the view that this failure was not merely a matter of economic misjudgments.

PLEASURE IS ALL MINE / From the frying pan to the fire?

If the last two centuries were of inconclusive and asymmetrical globalisation, the present one deserves to be called the century of migration.

February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023

Our world is becoming economically fragmented

Even though globalisation may have peaked, it is far from being wholly reversed, and Western countries need to stop weaponising trade and economic policy.

January 27, 2023
January 27, 2023

The Next Globalisation

Developments in three areas – telework, renewables, and AI – will bind countries together in new networks of interdependence.

September 9, 2022
September 9, 2022

The irreversibility of globalisation

Politicians, media commentators, and economists have been far too hasty in predicting the demise of globalisation.

June 3, 2022
June 3, 2022

Getting Deglobalisation Right

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences.

May 19, 2018
May 19, 2018

Why we need globalisation

From the Brexit vote to Donald Trump's election as US president to rising support for populist parties in countries like Germany and Italy, much of the electoral upheaval in Western democracies in recent years has been attributed at least partly to a backlash against globalisation. But globalisation does not deserve voters' ire.

December 12, 2017
December 12, 2017

The globalisation of our discontent

Fifteen years ago, I published Globalization and Its Discontents, a book that sought to explain why there was so much dissatisfaction with globalisation within the developing countries.

August 14, 2017
August 14, 2017

The new socialism of fools

According to standard economic theory, redistribution only comes about when a country's exports require vastly different factors of production than its imports. But there are no such differences in today's global economy.

August 8, 2016
August 8, 2016

Globalisation and its new discontents

The failure of globalisation to deliver on the promises of mainstream politicians has surely undermined trust and confidence in the “establishment.” And governments' offers of generous bailouts for the banks that had brought on the 2008 financial crisis, while leaving ordinary citizens largely to fend for themselves, reinforced the view that this failure was not merely a matter of economic misjudgments.

January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016

From the frying pan to the fire?

If the last two centuries were of inconclusive and asymmetrical globalisation, the present one deserves to be called the century of migration.

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