Globalization and its Contents: An Update

Philipp Harms

No 2406, Working Papers from Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract: This is the manuscript of a keynote speech which I gave in October 2023 at a conference that celebrated 30 years of the Polish-German Academic Forum at the Warsaw School of Economics. The text reviews the evolution of globalization in the past decades, covering various dimensions of economic integration and devoting particular attention to the experiences of Poland and Germany. It then discusses the theoretical merits of free trade and international capital mobility, but also its distributional consequences, and eventually summarizes the empirical evidence on the effects of economic globalization. Finally, it sheds light on the recent anti-globalization backlash and analyzes the forces and motivations that determine individuals’ attitudes. The text concludes with the assessment that, if globalization is to persist, it has to be perceived as more than a purely economic project.

Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2024-03-26
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