La grande convergenza. Tecnologia informatica, web e nuova globalizzazione

This book offers a really helpful framework for thinking about globalization that goes beyond somewhat stale discussions. It helps frame up the changes from the 1990s that have created such a havoc on the US economy and political scene. It also makes clear that the changes in the global economy mean Leggi tutto

Yet another book on the affects of globalization? Yes, I'm afraid so. But this one is worth a gander. Baldwin's book, The Great Convergence, elucidates how things are made in business today, how information and communication technology has radically changed production, and, lastly, what this now mea Leggi tutto

Richard Baldwin provides a framework for understanding globalization as an "unbundling" between consumption and production, and how technological innovations lifted three important constraints: the cost of moving goods, the cost of moving ideas, and the cost of moving people. The first wave of global Leggi tutto

Pretty well-written and easy to understand history of globalisation - globalisation here is defined through three stages of unbundling. The first stage is production and consumption occuring at different places geographically, the second stage is production itself being fragmented through the advent Leggi tutto

The concluding remark summarizes the content of the book perfectly: "Things have changed so much that not even the future is what it used to be." The book brings the story on why todays globalisation differs from our parents' globalization. Lowering trade costs caused a first worldwide unbundling, wh Leggi tutto

Baldwin has here written a solid up to date book, as of 2018, on globalization. Although he seems to have tried hard to avoid it, Baldwin falls into the trap of spending too long on the past. Still that's an all too common error for such books and other authors have done much worse in that regard. Sp Leggi tutto