globalization

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For years, policymakers celebrated cheap consumer goods as proof that globalization was working.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

As World Bank Chief Economist Indermit Gill wrote in a new report, that conclusion helped “stigmatize” industrial policy just as a leap forward in transport and communications technologies spurred a period of intense globalization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The strengths of globalization have become the weaknesses of those who participate in it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

U.S. globalization has always been less about exploiting wage gaps and more about projecting management, technology, and innovation outward.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman