Articulos
In the past 30 years, religion has returned to global politics. Disputes over religious issues, ranging from abortion, to same-sex marriage, to the wearing of headscarves in schools, have become major areas of contention across Western democracies. Religious parties and movements have made striking electoral breakthroughs in countries such as India, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel, […]
Each phase in the long history of the world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One of the key properties of the current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of […]
This book is the second in a series published by BBVA Group as part of its effort to promote and spread knowledge. As such, it is in keeping with our group’s vision statement, “BBVA, working for a better future for people.” Our work for people rests on two pillars: principles and innovation. Principles can be […]
A new world For most of the eons of human existence, people living only short distances apart might as well, for all the difference they made to each other’s lives, have been living in separate worlds. A river, a mountain range, a stretch of forest or desert, a sea—those were enough to cut people off […]
«Globalization is an advance that fosters hope for sustained development in most countries» […]
Globalization is not new to science. Kepler was a German who worked at the observatory of Tycho Brahe, a Danish noble, and inspired by the Pole Nicolás Copérnico, while Newton was English. This anecdote is used by Ramamurti Shankar, professor at Yale University, to explain the tremendous changes that globalization has also introduced in science. The means used by physicists to communicate with each other have obviously evolved over the centuries but thanks to the universality of laws and natural phenomena, physicists from India, Japan and Poland derive the same laws and explore the same phenomena as those from Greenland or Iceland. […]
«Analysts must take care to avoid globalist exaggerations when commenting on contemporary society» […]
What in the world is going on? Globalization as mythology Globalization is everywhere—or that is how it seems. A Google search on the topic reveals around 28 million entries! Hardly a day goes by without it being invoked by politicians, by academics, by business or trade union leaders, by journalists, by commentators on radio and […]
In an age fueled by knowledge and global markets, one might expect that knowledge would be bought and sold vigorously and often—and that knowledge markets would eclipse markets for tangible commodities such as wheat and pork bellies. Why haven’t markets for knowledge exploded, along with the Internet and the Web? Markets The Web gave us […]
«Those countries that have based their growth primarily on foreign borrowing or commodity booms are coming to a bad end» […]