Economics

Globalization, Culture, and Liberty

ABSTRACT

The conference investigated the historical origins of what is today called "globalization," the economic and cultural impacts of globalization on a multicultural society, and the effects of globalization on individual liberty.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Chase-Dunn, C. and T. D. Hall. Strukturelle Evolution und das Weltsystem: Theorien, Sozialstruktur und evolutionäre Entwicklungen. Edited by G. Preyer. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998.

Crafts, N. and A. J. Venables. Globalization in Historical Perspective. Edited by A. M. Taylor, and J. G. William. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Eštok, G. and R. Bzdilová, “Globalization – An Old or a New Phenomenon?” In The Scale of Globalization. Think Globally, Act Locally, Change Individually in the 21st Century, Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2011. 45-48.

Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

Ganesan, N. Multiculturalism in Asia. Edited by W. Kymlicka and B. He. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Kakwani, N. and H. H. Son. Globalization and the Poor in Asia. Can Shared Growth be Sustained? Edited by M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Kukathas, Chandran. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Kymlicka, W. Multiculturalism in Asia. Edited by W. Kymlicka and B. He. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Lindert, P. H. and J. G. Williamson. Globalization in Historical Perspective. Translated by A. M. Taylor and J. G. Williamson. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Palmer, Tom. Globalization and Culture: Homogeneity, Diversity, Identity and Liberty. Potsdam: The Liberal Institute of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 2004.

Preyer, Gerhard. “Globalization and the Evolution of Membership.” Social Indicators Research Series 9 (2002): 85-98.

Robertson, R. Global Modernities. Edited by S. Lash and R. Robertson. London: Sage, 1995.

Rousseau, P. L. and R. Sylla. Globalization in Historical Perspective. Edited by A. M. Taylor, and J. G. Williamson. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Swadźba, Urszula, “The Impact of Globalization on the Traditional Value System” In The Scale of Globalization. Think Globally, Act Locally, Change Individually in the 21st Century, Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2011. 332-337.

Ting, H. Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia-Pacific: The Australian and Malaysian Experience. Edited by C. Tazreiter and S. Y. Tham. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.