Brexit represented British voters’ desire to reclaim more control over their economic future, but some worry the cost will be some of the prosperity gained from globalization.
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The side effects of globalisation that have led to our current populist politics will not be successfully addressed by old-style industry policy.
Ever more people are stuck with shift work in a globalised economy that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
A new WTO trade deal is expected to provide up to $1 trillion in economic gains by eliminating bureaucracy. But that’s not its most important benefit.
Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
Globalization in its present form has generated economic inequalities, political uncertainties and cultural anxiety. Is there a way to move forward that benefits more people?
A globalization expert shares two surprising tales of how the powerful winds of trans-Atlantic trade affected the quintessentially American holiday.
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Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
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Professor and Director of the PhD program of the Silver School of Social Work, New York University
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Senior Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Galligan Chair of Strategy and Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Boston College
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
