Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple …The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps …

inescapable in the real world of asymmetric information and imperfect contract enforcement. I argue, however, that in confronting …

the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the … the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for …

This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …

This paper studies the welfare implications of trade opening in a world in which trade raises aggregate income but also …

produced prior to World War I were at least partly responsible for the interwar retreat from globalization. Will the world …The late 19th and the late 20th century shared more than simply globalization and convergence. Globalization also seems … Borjas and Wood think that globalization accounted for something like a third to a half of the rise in inequality in America …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …