economic globalization

kozlow and pitman

  • international trade

    • exchange what is produces with what others produce the best

  • foreign direct investment

    • owns businesses or property in another country

  • migration for better paying jobs


forms of globalization

  • economic

  • cultural - transfer of ideas and knowledge

  • political - political systems


causes

  • growing internation economic activity

    • trade of goods and services

    • borrowing/lending

  • liberalization of foreign economic policies

  • large-scale immigration flows

  • technological innovations


pros of globalizations

  • global competition decrease prices for goods and services

    • higher standard of living

  • voerall sales for domestic companies increase, frees up capital to hire, buy domestically, increase investment in technological

  • buy goods that are not domestic, exposed to different tastes/cultures/norms


fix crises of capitalism

  1. economic collapse

  2. Keynesianism

  3. geographic expansion


globalization and uneven dev

pressures

labor: industries can relocation to other countries to get concessions out of workers

environment: relocation to get concessions out of local, state, national gov’t on regulation