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Globalization A Key Idea for Business and Society
160 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Globalization: A Key Idea for Business and Society analyzes today’s process of global integration. Globalization is seen as a complex phenomenon, the drivers of which are of a technological, institutional, cultural and, not least, political nature.
The book includes a historical analysis of the rise, and fall, of the “first globalization” wave which took place between the end of the... Read more
1 Why (another) book about globalization? 1
2 The World of Yesterday 12
THE GLOBALIZATION THAT WAS (AND WHAT IT HAS TO TEACH US)
3 Measuring globalization 31
4 Inside globalization 59
DETERMINANTS
5 Globalization and business 78
6 Global Leviathans 102
7 From globalization to fragmentation 123
FROM THE END TO THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY
Index 147
Biography
Veronica Binda is Lecturer in Business and Economic History at Bocconi University, Italy.
Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Italy.
