Starting in the late 1990s, “globalization” became a buzzword to describe the apparent integration of markets in the world economy. Many authors and pundits claimed that the world was converging towards a market-friendly democratic place, while gurus and consulting firms were rapidly producing formulae and advice on how to make profits out of the global economy. Decades later, new realities show that globalization does not necessarily mean political, cultural, and economic convergence and that, in fact, forces against it are strong.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Orientation
Module 1: How Did We Get Here? Why Does It Matter?
Module 2: The Big Disappointment: The World Did Not Converge
Module 3: Why We Trade and How We Do It
Module 4: Why Do We Have Multinationals? What Determines the Type of Multinational?
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- 3 stars1.11%
- 2 stars0.37%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM GLOBAL STRATEGY I: HOW THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WORKS
A good course for beginners to learn about history of free trade and globalisation. One needs to know about the thought processes and evolution of theories that govern the situations today
The course can be more detailed and more around recent events.
What a perfect and concise course!. I would highly recommend it to get good knowledge of mechanism of world economy.!
Thoroughly enjoyed learning the concepts taught in this course by Prof. Bucheli.
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