Globalization
Assessing the Future of Free Global Trade Under President Trump
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.
Why Parts of the Rust Belt Love Donald Trump
National pride, not economic dislocation, fuels the current wave of right-wing populism.
The Postal System Is Profoundly Broken
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.
Sociolinguistics and the Geography of Innovation
The decline of the Southern drawl maps the diffusion of knowledge production in the United States.
Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Make Workers’ Lives Better?
Or will its historic labor protections be ignored and unenforced?
The Future of Work: Re-Engaging the Beleaguered Worker
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 Future of Work: A Call to Collective Action
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.
Making Work Fair: Regulating Labor in the 21st Century
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 Geographic Scale of Globalization Isn't Global
Nations—and even cities—don't globalize. Globalization spreads block by block.
The Future of Work: The Risks of Industrial Globalization
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 Future of Work: The World Needs a New Business Model
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 Future of Work: Preparing Students for a Changing World of Work
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 Future of Work: A Nightmare Scenario—and Three Things That Might Prevent It
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 Future of Work: Stemming the Rise of Bad Jobs
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 Third Globalization: Human Capital and Demographic Decline
Half of the world lives in a country where the number of births fails to replace those who die.
Robert Putnam Is Wrong About Social Capital
Too much social capital—not too little—is driving a wedge of income inequality between Americans.
Global London and the Geography of Prosperity
Globalization appears to be tearing apart Britain. Second-tier cities must find their inner London and pull the country back together.
Globalization Giveth and Globalization Taketh Away
French cuisine is dying. Don't blame globalization.
Geography of Income Equality and Gentrification
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.
Bright Flight From Silicon Valley: The Rent Is Too Damn High
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.
Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization
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.
How Talent Migration Facilitates the Diffusion of Globalization
Openness to immigration behaves in the same way as openness to trade.
Connecting Neighborhoods: Small Geographic Scales of Globalization
The financial crisis turned the world upside down.
Urban Minor Leagues of Globalization
Manufacturing used to be concentrated in a few great American cities, but the landscape is changing fast.