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Tag: Globalization
Internetization setting the parameters for the new normal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Internetization is revolutionizing our lives. But too many parts of Canada lack the electronic capacity needed to take advantage of it
Teamwork will allow us to win the game of life
Reading Time: 3 minutes The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how connected and interdependent we truly are as a global community
Reaching into the past for a better pandemic supply plan
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some vital economic sectors require government support and protection in order to grow and mature and not be held hostage to foreign influence
The Year 1000: a look at globalization’s roots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Author Valerie Hansen demonstrates that the concept of international trading networks and linkages goes back a very long way
Recalibrating globalization in a pandemic age
Reading Time: 4 minutes Who defines what’s essential and should thus be sourced domestically, even if it’s more expensive to do so?
They don’t build borders like they used to
Reading Time: 3 minutes The modern border is porous, malleable and surmountable. It’s not an effective deterrent for undesirable political, social, medical or economic consequences
Why Trump will win in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Blame free-market globalization, and the accompanying wage stagnation and declines in middle-class living standards
Washington Consensus lit the fuse blowing apart the modern world
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve allowed market forces to replace a host of political-economic goals and considerations, and we’re far worse for it
The nationalist revival versus the globalist perspective
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ties that bind aren’t what they used to be – at least for some of us. For others, they are increasingly intense