Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, much of the world was already connected via trade, exploration, and cultural exchange. In fact, one can trace globalization all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Stuart Anderson: Can you explain what Russia’s participation ...

After two and a half years of a pandemic that has exposed the fragility of global supply chains and eight months of war in Ukraine that has severed economic ties between Russia and the West and ...

Globalization, since the Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016, has been shaped by a tug of war between economic fundamentals and policy threats. But predictions that globalization would collapse under a ...

Around the world, people are calling for a new kind of globalization. The current version, once called the Washington Consensus, has delivered economic growth but at enormous cost: rising inequalities ...

The prospect of higher tariffs and other unfriendly trade policies is bad news for everyone exposed. By definition, tariffs raise costs, which is bad for inflation, productivity, economic activity, ...

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In her recent article for the British press, Madge Dresser (search), a lecturer at the University of West England, linked 19th century globalization and slavery. Dresser was described as arguing that ...