Abstract
‘Globalisation’ is a term that has been fashionable since about the mid-1980s, when it began to replace terms like ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnationalisation’ as a more suitable concept for describing the ever-intensifying networks of cross-border human interaction. The concept covers a great variety of social, economic and political change, and it is therefore not surprising that different disciplines have assigned different meanings to it and that this has led to often spurious debates between them, particularly in respect of the question of whether globalisation is or is not happening.
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P. Hirst and G. Thompson, Globalization in Question? (London: Polity Press, 1996) p. 195.
Cf. S. Kuznets, ‘Quantitative Aspects of the Economic Growth of Nations: X-level and Structure of Foreign Trade: Long-Term Trends’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 15 (2) Part II (January 1967) pp. 7–8. Kuznets gave the historical figure.
Today’s figure is based on statistical tables in World Bank, World Development Report (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). See also Table 4.1, p. 71 in Chapter 4 of this book. Note, however, that World Bank sources stress the tremendous growth in world trade relative to world income since 1990.
See S. Otsubo, Globalization: Accelerated Integration through World Trade (Washington: World Bank International Economics Department, 1995) discussion paper.
United Nations, Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 1994: Transnational Corporations, Employment and the Workplace (New York: United Nations, 1994) pp. 133–5.
For example, A. Glyn and R. Sutcliffe, ‘Global but Leaderless? The New Capitalist Order’, in Socialist Register (London: Merlin Press, 1992), pp. 76–95; and D. M. Gordon, ‘The Global Economy: New Edifice or Crumbling Foundations?’, New Left Review, no. 168 (1988) pp. 24–64.
For a compact review of sociological theories of globalisation, see M. Waters, Globalization (London: Routledge, 1995).
T. Parsons, Societies (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1966); and The System of Modern Societies (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1971).
R. Robertson, Globalization (London: Sage, 1992).
J. Nettl and R. Robertson, International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (London: Faber, 1968).
D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989). The summary here is based on Chapters 14, 15 and 17 of his book.
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Hoogvelt, A. (1997). Globalisation. In: Globalisation and the Postcolonial World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25671-6_6
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