Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...

From the standpoint of policies, the different branches of economics may be aggregated into two categories: dirigiste and laissez fairist. Dirigiste theories in economics have been based primarily on the complexity of commodities: this allows commodities to be ranked according to the...

We present four important dimensions to international tax policy from a tax-systems perspective, stressing that non-rate/base tax policies can have different cross-jurisdictional spillover effects than changes in tax rates. The dimensions are the allocation of global income among taxing...

AbstractThis article corresponds to the Opening Magisterial Lecture of the 2021 Course of the Royal Galician Academy of Science, which I gave on May 5th, 2021.The first part ("Introduction") describes the essential features of the two types of globalization seen in modern times: the so-called...

The article discusses the concept of globalization from different points of view, evolution, ideological support, limits, and possible alternatives. As methodology, the research is based on extensive literature revision. It is concluded that as long as the current pattern of capital...

This is an introduction to a new development in the international arena that poses a threat to the ability of countries to tailor patent and regulatory laws to promote access to medicine. Basically, certain international agreements permit foreign companies to sue a country for compensation if...

Conventional wisdom holds that globalization has peaked and is now in retreat. Dani Rodrik argued in 2000 that economic integration conflicted with national sovereignty and that this tension would, or at least should, put a brake on economic globalization. Has that view been vindicated? This...

This paper argues Rodrik's (2011) globalization trilemma is analytically mistaken. Rather than a trilemma, globalization poses a dilemma between more globalization and reduced national policy space. Not only may globalization shrink policy space, it may also twist it. The character of the twist...

The aim of this paper is to test whether the relationship between globalization and corruption is non-linear as suggested by the literature. The study has been conducted on a sample size of 122 countries between 1990 and 2006 divided into four sub-periods. The findings confirm the hypothesis of...