The non-winners in globalization are the Western World's middle classes. ... Get Ready to See This Globalization 'Elephant Chart' Over and Over Again.

The hottest curve in economics right now helps explain the rise of China, the rise of populism in Europe and the rise of Donald Trump. From a global perspective, income inequality has gone down ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

To be fair, globalization has been declared dead since early 2016. That’s when the World Economic Forum first said as much, ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Worth noting, this ...

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, ...

For more than three decades, global human rights scholar Alison Brysk has studied the drivers and responses to abuses of power, from domestic violence to dictatorships. Among the many issues on her ...

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 ...