New Globalization

Globalization is old, but in some cases quantity IS quality.

Globalization has radically increased in the past 30 years.

There have been radical increases in: the flow of information, the flow of money, the flow of people, the flow of technology, and the folow of ideas.

This has been accompanied by both rising wealth, and rising differences between the wealth and the poor.

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image shows inter-city linkages for 175 firms across the leading 50 world cities, 2011.