The 'globalization'of economic activity and the governance issues it raises are often thought
to have appeared only after the Second World War, and particularly during the 1960s. The …

'... it offers expanded coverage of issues from pure international economics to certain
aspects of political economy.... the present book is a fine work and certainly makes a …

Globalisation has been widely used to refer to recent sharp increases in levels of
international activity, particularly, but not exclusively, international economic flows. 1 Using …

Since the mid-1970s sales, finance and production (ie all three circuits of capital), as well as
the concentration and centralization of capital, have been internationalized to an extent that …

This chapter investigates the major structural changes of the global economy the last two
decades and their impact on developing countries. Looking backward in time over the vast …

The 'short twentieth century'has ended unexpectedly (Hobsbawm, 1994b). The economic
shocks of the late 1960s and early 1970s not only brought to an abrupt halt three decades of …

It is now almost impossible to pick up a newspaper or listen to the news without either being
confronted by the word 'globalization'or being faced with issues relating to its economic …

Globalization, in the sense of increased integration of international markets, has waxed and
waned throughout history. Most recently, it thrived between the middle of the nineteenth …

The global economic system requires the implementation of a broad range of standards.
This has happened most visibly through supranational institutions, notably the WTO (World …

Economic globalisation has made tremendous strides in recent decades as evidenced in the
huge expansion in world exports, vast FDI flows and transnationalisation of production …