Preface / Robert W. McChesney -- Introduction -- Financial capitalism and financialization -- Finance and information -- Financialization in the world's top media conglomerates -- Risks of media financialization for journalism

Using panel data, this paper explores the effects of openness to international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Fixed-effect and adjusted fixedeffect (regional-effect) estimations yield results consistent with the hypothesis of conditional convergence. FDI has a...