ISBN:
0387740678
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (2715 KB, 230 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Measuring Globalisation : Gauging Its Consequences
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Globalisation is a timely and controversial topic. Against the chorus of globalisation's proponents and detractors, the authors propose an approach for measuring globalisation and its consequences. Undertaking a comprehensive review of the literature on globalisation and using data from the MGI and KOF indices, the well-respected authors build a framework for defining globalisation and analyzing the relationships among economic, political, and social variables.
Abstract:
During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations, and the natural environment have become successively more intertwined. While the increased global economic integration, global forms of governance, globally inter-linked social and environmental developments are often referred to as globalisation, there is no unanimously-agreed upon definition of the term. Depending on the researcher or commentator, it can mean, among other things, the growing integration of markets and nation-states, receding geographical constraints on social and cultural arrangements, the increased dissemination of ideas and technologies, the threat to national sovereignty by trans-national actors, or the transformation of the economic, political and cultural foundations of societies. Regardless of perspective, globalisation permeates our economic, political, and social institutions to a profound degree. Recently, the issue of sustainability has reached the mainstream: are the forces of globalisation ultimately contributing to growth and opportunityor to destruction and chaos? Against the chorus of globalisations proponents and detractors, the authors propose an approach for measuring globalisation and its consequences. Undertaking a comprehensive review of the literature on globalisation and using data from the MGI and KOF indices, the authors build a framework for defining globalisation and analyzing the relationships among economic, political, and social variables. In particular, they apply the methodology to analyze the effects of globalisation on tax policy, government spending, economic growth, inequality, union power, and the natural environment and consider additional avenues for research, analysis, and decision making. In the process, they hope that by introducing objective measures to enhance our insight into the functioning of the complex global system. Dreher, Gaston and Martens have produced the most systematic and comprehens
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards An Understanding of theConcept of Globalisation; 2.1 Capitalism as the incubator of contemporary globalisation; 2.2 Technological innovation as the engine of globalisation; 2.3 Political dimensions of globalisation; 2.4 The Global Village and the social andcultural aspects of globalisation; 2.5 Globalisation and the environment; 2.6 Framing globalisation by its timeline; 2.7 Digression: The challenge of sustainabledevelopment in a globalising world; 3 The Measurement of Globalisation; 3.1 The use of indicators to measure globalisation
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3.2 The literature to date3.3 The MGI and KOF globalisation indices; 3.4 Comparing the main indices; 4 Consequences of Globalisation Reconsidered:Applying the KOF Index; 4.1 Government spending and taxation and thestate of the Welfare State; 4.2 The composition of government spending; 4.3 Does globalisation spur economic growth?; 4.4 Globalisation and deunionisation; 4.5 Globalisation and inequality; 4.6 Globalisation and the natural environment; 5 Conclusion; References; Appendix A: Sources and Definitions; Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics; Author Index; Subject Index; FIGURES
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Figure 2.1 The Globalisation TimelineFigure 2.2 The Triangular Model; Figure 2.3 The IPCC SRES scenarios as branches of a two-dimensional tree; Figure 2.4 Future developments and the dynamics of capital stocks; Figure 3.1 MGI raw data frequency distributions; Figure 3.2 MGI transformed data frequency distributions; Figure 3.3 KOF Index of Globalisation 2007, map; Figure 3.4 2007 KOF Index of Globalisation; Figure 3.5 Economic globalisation; Figure 3.6 Social globalisation; Figure 3.7 Political globalisation; Figure 3.8 Development of globalisation across regions
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Figure 3.9 Development of globalisation according to incomeFigure 4.1 Development of average expenditure shares; Figure 4.2 Globalisation and deunionisation; Box; Box A The IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES); TABLES; Table 2.1 Issues linked with the IPCC-SRES scenarios; Table 3.1 Maastricht Globalisation Index (MGI) variables; Table 3.2 Geographical adjustment: regression resultsfor all indicators (1999 data); Table 3.4 Weights of variables in the 2002 KOF Index of Globalisation; Table 3.5 Weights of variables in the 2007 KOF Index of Globalisation
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Table 3.6 KOF Index of Globalisation, 2007 RankingsTable 3.7 KOF Index of Globalisation 2007, 5-year averages; Table 3.8 Comparison of the main globalisation indices; Table 3.9 Ten most globalised countries across indices; Table 3.10 Rank correlation across indices of globalisation; Table 4.1 Studies using the KOF Index of Globalisation; Table 4.2 Globalisation and economic policy(1970-2004, OLS, static model); Table 4.3 Globalisation and economic policy(1970-2004, dynamic model); Table 4.4 Dimensions of globalisation and economic policy(1970-2004, dynamic model)
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Table 4.5 Significance of variables in system regressions(1971-2001, 60 countries, 614 observations, SUR)
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