Flynn, Dennis O.; Giráldez, Arturo - In: World Economics 3 (2002) 2, pp. 1-16
Absent a workable definition of the term ‘globalization’, debates today lack intellectual rigor. Most consider globalization a 20th-century (even post-1945) phenomenon. In fact, globalization was born when Manila was founded as a Spanish entrepôt in 1571. Connections across the Pacific...