the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond. This article tries to close this gap by using latest (United Nations and …. Our three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization – reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and … feminism that substituted patriarchic structures inherent in practically all world regions for much of the 19th and the early …

main loser in the structural changes that affect the position of Europe in the 21st Century. The world system approach … world economy are dramatically shifting towards the Asia- Pacific region, and that the days of “Eurocentrism” are … outnumbered. Foreign savings become an important indicator of the center-periphery structure of the world system and its changing …

The effects of globalization on income distribution within rich and poor countries are a matter of controversy. While … presents another attempt to discern the effects of globalization by using the data from household budget surveys and looking at …

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to …

The paper discusses recent world income inequality calculations by Sala- i-Martin. It shows that the two main problems … of income augmented by a constant shift parameter and not a distribution of income among world citizens. …

The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only … one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are … adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it is” (the Halcyon days of the 1870-1913, and the record of the last two …

societies, social relations, and capitalism. …