As the Chart of the Week shows, globalization plateaued in the decade and a half since the global financial crisis. This latest era is often referred to as “slowbalization.” Each of the chart’s five ...

The prospect of higher tariffs and other unfriendly trade policies is bad news for everyone exposed. By definition, tariffs ...

Is Globalization in Decline? A New Number Contradicts the Consensus. Instead of looking at the dollar value of trade, focus on how many tons of stuff get shipped how far. By . Josh Zumbrun.

In the face of a sluggish world economic recovery, the rising threat of protectionism, and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, discussions around economic globalization are increasing ...

This chart from Societe Generale is striking. The cost of goods, as a percentage of sales, has been falling for years, helping explain why profit margins have been expanding .

Globalization — the flow of goods, service, capital, energy, data, and people across borders — is everywhere from our food to our phones and fuels every industry.

First, economic globalization is multidimensional. Second, populism can be defined in different ways, and each definition implies a different relation with economic globalization (and, more generally, ...

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the economic “mutual assured destruction” that was supposed to safeguard globalization and deter decoupling apparently reached its limits.

The champion of globalization is now breaking it After the WWII, the US engineered the Bretton Woods system and WTO to institutionalize free trade, cleverly embedding its economic dominance into ...

These shifts matter because software talent is greatly treasured. Salaries are high (see chart 2). The median wage of a developer in America sits in the top 5% of all occupations, meaning that ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high ...