Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Ginsburg is a reporter who writes about international business. A simple Google search of worldwide trends reveals ...

Globalization and the world economy are often portrayed as being one and the same, but other forms of globalization also have significant effects – not all of them benign – on our daily lives. Unless ...

Rising levels of inequality are the defining political and economic issue of our times. Middle- and working-class Americans, ...

A story in the Washington Post said “20 years ago globalization was pitched as a strategy that would raise all boats in poor and rich countries alike. In the U.S. and Europe consumers would have their ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Appadurai is an Indian-Amerian anthropologist, a world-renowned expert on the cultural dynamics of globalization and the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Even in the ...

Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...