One topic of interest for the social sciences and similar fields, such as business administration, economics and political science is globalization. Many researchers suggest that this is a new topic. Our research, however, looked into the assumptions of political and economic history concerning...

Foreign demand will place technology intensive productive factors and various areas of knowledge in motion. There will be institutional changes that will lead productive centers to modify their allocation of tasks and functions. Regional production centers, such as Bogota, as a city-region with...

Knowledge, the multinational firm, and the free flow of financial capital seem to be the new and perhaps leading actors in the emerging 21st century global economy. From a comparative basis and relating this variables we attempt in this paper to study and explore what we consider are basic...

The world had to go into a slow and painful path before a sort of world capitalist and trading environment transformed it into a single one-world one-market system. Several authors attempted to build a theoretical framework to offer an explanation of the way a world economic system was formed...

This paper deepens into the initial conditions that explain about the expansion of the nation-state particularly referring to the Colombia case, indicating how some political and economic facts present during the 19th century led to a first globalization attempt. This paper also reflex the...

Technological development and enlargement of investment currents during the second half of the 19th century and early twentieth century started an era of emerging global economy. Conditions are now given so a global market will spread during the 21st century, where the Nation-state will have to...

This review paper offers to the general reader some highlights about one of the most important trade negotiations followed within the Western Hemisphere. Especialised news and other government sources offer to the general public the state of the art of this ambitious negotiation scheme followed...