Globalization

While there are challenges facing the global system, when we look at international economic law there are several reasons to believe that it can, and will, endure.

National pride, not economic dislocation, fuels the current wave of right-wing populism.

An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap—and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals.

The decline of the Southern drawl maps the diffusion of knowledge production in the United States.

Or will its historic labor protections be ignored and unenforced?

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Nations—and even cities—don't globalize. Globalization spreads block by block.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Half of the world lives in a country where the number of births fails to replace those who die.

Too much social capital—not too little—is driving a wedge of income inequality between Americans.

Globalization appears to be tearing apart Britain. Second-tier cities must find their inner London and pull the country back together.

French cuisine is dying. Don't blame globalization.

In a truly global market, the price of real estate doesn't necessarily reflect the ability of those living in the area to afford it.

Talented people are starting to move to places where the cost of living is more reasonable, but a town can't just be cheap and wonderful. It also has to be connected.

Higher education and health care, two major elements of the new Legacy Economy, are attracting global talent and gentrifying the neighborhoods that surround them, pricing out residents who toil in the local or regional labor market.

Openness to immigration behaves in the same way as openness to trade.

The financial crisis turned the world upside down.

Manufacturing used to be concentrated in a few great American cities, but the landscape is changing fast.