The conventional wisdom is there have been two globalizations in the modern era. The first began around 1870 and ended in 1914. The second began in 1945 and is still underway. This paper challenges that view and argues there have been three globalizations, not two. The first half of the paper...

COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating effect on both lives and livelihoods in 2020. The arrival of effective vaccines can be a major game changer. However, vaccines are in short supply as of early 2021 and most of them are reserved for the advanced economies. We show that the global GDP loss of...

On the cusp of the millennium and as the century that was supposed to belong to Canada draws to a close, we find ourselves as a medium-sized nation exercising an influence out of all proportion to our size. This special issue on Canada in the Global Economy gives us a chance to sum up where we...

La globalisation, terme utilisé à tort et à travers, est souvent accusée de tous les maux par la presse et les livres à grand tirage. Bien que les caractéristiques fondamentales de la globalisation ne soient plus guère contestées, les opinions divergent quant aux effets de la...

This paper provides a synthesis of the approaches to the financialized accumulation regime, showing both the problems and the potentialities of the theories that deal with it. It tries to describe the main systemic features of the financialized regime, while questioning its virtuous character...

In this study, it is attempted to survey the impacts of the globalization process on the functions of employers’organizations. In this manner, first it is examined the features of employers’ organizations and then it is attempted to emphasize how the changes in the fourth quarter...

The society of the knowledge is not nowadays a simple political slogan, but joined the concept of new economy and globalization it expresses a special relation of power. Of dependence of the world with the only existent superpower from the ends of the 20th century: the United States. It is the...

This paper examines the hypothesis that changes have been brought about in the forest industry that allow it to participate fully in globalization. The forest industry has undergone profound changes in recent years in large part by new technologies. Whereas traditionally it was primarily an...

This study reassesses the resource–economic growth nexus by incorporating several channels. Advanced panel time series techniques are used to analyze panel time series data from 1980 to 2015 in 31 oil-rich countries. Results show that oil rent augments economic growth; thus, oil rent is...