The end of globalization

Author: Rugman
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The author is a leading scholar in the field of international business and strategic studies. The author defines economic globalization. By connecting the economic production reality based on the three poles of Europe, the Americas, and Japan with the political, social aspects of globalization and regulatory issues, the book analyzes the contradictions between the realities of regional trade and foreign direct investment and the current irrational promotion of globalization, and elaborates on the impact of these contradictions on managers. Alan Rugman, Ph.D., a global economic issues expert and professor at the University of Oxford in the UK, wrote the book "The End of Globalization," arguing that true globalization has not only failed to succeed but has already come to an end. He believes that there is only regionalization, not globalization. One of the fundamental ideas vigorously elaborated in this book is that the concept of "globalization," which has been almost excessively used so far, lacks real meaning. The economic facts that are the basic constituent elements of globalization have shown that there is no such thing as "pure globalization." What people call "globalization" is merely the globalization operations of super multinational corporations led by the currently most powerful "trilateral group"—namely, the three economic giants of the United States, the European Union, and Japan.