Over the last six decades, countries around the world have increasingly relied on international trade to obtain the goods and services they consume. The trend toward increased globalization was ...

The United States cannot divorce itself from the “disruptive forces” of the global world, Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, told an audience of Brown and Providence community members Sunday during a lecture that ...

Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

International trade is the exchange of goods and services across international borders. Centered on the dynamics of export and import trade, international trade determines the pace of global economic ...

Post-WWII reforms like the New Deal and the ensuing consolidation of the labor movement increased income equality in the U.S., but the playing field started to tilt in the 1970s due to the forces of ...

Empire or nation-state? Globalization or populism? This has been the battle of humanity since the Europeans first learned to sail. You went to other countries, you conquered them, sometimes brutally, ...

A staple of Econ 101 is that the building blocks of the economy are the four factors of production — land, which stands for all natural resources; labor, people’s effort and talent; capital, ...

On the campaign trail, presidential candidates in both parties depict an America under siege from cheap imports, job-stealing globalization or waves of illegal immigration. The reality since the ...

Morgan Stanley says the forces of globalization are losing strength as trade tensions rise. That's leaving some multinational companies vulnerable but creates new opportunities as well. Michael Zezas ...

NATCHEZ, Miss.—The American South spent much of the past century trying to overcome its position as the country’s poorest and least-developed region, with considerable success: By the 2009 recession ...

A worker uses a lift to move rolls of sheet metal at LMS International, in Laredo, Tex., on Nov. 21, 2016. (Eric Gay/Associated Press) Afshin Molavi is co-director of the emerge85 Lab and a senior ...