Conference of 2009. Topics covered include the environmental implications of globalization; wealth, poverty, and consumption …

and poverty emerged. Globalization and the great divergence were causally related, and thus the rise of globalization over …

the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine …

change, shifting product markets, and globalization. Chips and Change also offers insights into how chip firms have developed …

perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume … a billion cars, the future of the planet is threatened. But, Cohen points out, there is another kind of globalization …: the immaterial globalization enabled by the Internet. It is still possible, he argues, that the cyber-world will create a …

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is …

synthesis of fifteen years of research—linking his own work to related research by others—on the globalization of production and …

interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal …

, China, or the former Soviet Union will cause a collapse of the welfare state and of society's well-being. "Globalization … reverse the commonly held view that globalization has caused today's insecure labor market. On the contrary, Cohen argues, our … own propensity for transforming the nature of work has created a niche for globalization and given it an ominous dimension …

effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain … globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United …