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Is Economic Globalisation a new phenomenon?
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An Introduction to International Political Economy (POI 3050). *Is Economic Globalisation a new phenomenon? In this essay I am going to explain firstly what economic globalisation is, looking at its diversity and change through many years to illustrate that economic globalisation is not a new phenomenon. Then to conclude with some thoughts on the future of economic globalisation and what can be done about it. Economic globalisation is, in a sense, the strengthening of the position of capitalism as the prevailing structure of production in contemporary history. Economic globalisation has involved huge expansions of supraterritorial money and finance, as well as the creation of thousands of transborder companies and strategic alliances, as well as the appearance of innumerable transworld products, and the emergence of major additional sectors of accumulation in the information and communications industries. Economic globalisation is not a new phenomenon. The world has experienced periods of extensive economic and political integration in...
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