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Charles Derber is an American academic, author and left-wing political activist. He is Professor of Sociology at Boston College.His work focuses on capitalism, globalization, corporate power, populism, neo-fascism, American militarism, the climate crisis, cultural individualism, and the new peace and global justice movements.
Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School.He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization.
Journalists and authors who write about globalization. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A. Anti-globalization writers (1 C, 37 P) ...
Held and his co-writers' definition of globalization in that same book as "transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions—assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact—generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows" was called "probably the most widely-cited definition" in the ...
Anti-globalization books (10 P) M. Books about multinational companies (3 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Books about globalization" ... The Art of Investing in America; B.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century is a 2005 book by American political commentator Thomas L. Friedman.It analyzes globalization in the early 21st century, suggesting that the world has a level playing field where countries, companies, and individuals need to remain competitive in a global market.
George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who has mainly studied globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern/postmodern social theory. His concept of McDonaldization draws upon Max Weber 's idea of rationalization through the lens of the fast food industry.
Manfred B. Steger is an American academic and author.He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. [1]Steger is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily focusing on the crucial role of ideas, images, language, beliefs, and other symbolic systems in shaping discourses of globalization.