globalization

New York Times Columnist and Princeton University Professor, Paul Krugman, recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School in Princeton, lauded him, claiming "Paul Krugman has been at the cutting edge of research on the most important phenomenon of our time: policymaking in the face of rapid and seemingly inexorable globalization".  Read More »

This may seem like a simple question, with a simple answer for some. You will get different responses though. Talk to the leaders of multinationals like Exxon, Microsoft and Google and you will receive positive leanings towards Globalization. You might hear about the "inevitability" of the force that is Globalization.  Read More »

Low wages. Foreign goods. Capitalism. These words describe some of what globalization offers. Globalization is deemed as a positive influence towards developing countries. The government and most of the media supports globalization, but is globalization a good thing? To what extent is globalization just modern day imperialism?  Read More »

It's the strangest thing to me. I don't even really like McDonald's or their burgers, but sometimes when I'm sick of Chinese food and homesick for something familiar. I gotta have a double cheeseburger or a Big Mac. Everything at McDonald's tastes exactly same as the way in does in America.  Read More »

I have been lucky. I’ve had the unique opportunity to do some traveling around the globe, and I actually currently live in Japan. After growing up in a small Wisconsin town, my perceptions of the world were, well, quite small. I rarely saw people of different ethnic origins, and was surrounded by middle-class white republicans. My world was small. How many of us can relate to this feeling?  Read More »

Capitalism is what defines America, and oil is a perfect example of capitalism. Capitalism is a free market, also known as supply and demand.  Read More »

Tired of the World’s Opinion.  Read More »

Globalization can’t solve everyone’s problems. Despite being based on an ideal of universal benefits, globalization has proved itself to be a system that has complicated the problems of many nations. Globalization would actually benefit everyone if it were carried with perfectly equal representation of and influence by all nations, but such perfection is only utopian.  Read More »