Globalization has not come without a cost. In today's world of international travel, if someone from Japan sneezes, someone in southeast Missouri may soon catch a cold. Or maybe even something worse.

World Review of Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 105-116 (12 pages) This article argues that the socialist experiences are too isolated from the world, and the exposed experiences ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In early April, I visited Jamaica to attend the Destination Experience Visionaries Summit, an international business conference ...

When we talk about blockchain technology, for a lot of people, bitcoin is the first thought in their mind. That’s because bitcoin presented us with the first use-case application, where the value of ...

The Brexit referendum, and some of the political discourse in the US presidential election, shows clearly that there is pushback on globalization. Globalization is a term that I think of as referring ...

To tell the story of the demonstrations surrounding a World Trade Organization meeting, “WTO/99” assembled scenes shot by the ...

Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...

Law schools from around the world have joined forces to create what they say is the first formal, international network geared toward spurring legal teaching and research collaborations.

Abstract. In this paper we address two bodies of sociological research: the effects of globalization and theories of pay. Most sociological writings on globalization emphasize its negative ...