What is globalization?

Everybody is talking about it, but what is it?

Search globalization in Google and you get 22,000,000+ hits. Though many reputable websites have pages about globalization, simply finding a definition can be tricky. The Merriam-Webster definition is actually a little confusing:

: the act or process of globalizing :

the state of being globalized.

What about all those websites -- interested in globalization from the banking perspective? Maybe the World Bank can help. Or the International Monetary Fund. Colleges and universities have entire departments dedicated to the study of globalization - such as the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Or this one at Emory University.

And then there's always the wikis and think tanks. There are even sites that have collections of quotations from famous thinkers and educators about globalization.

The Library currently has a display of books from our collection on globalization. Titles of some of the newer materials include:

• Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water/ by Maude Barlow. 333.91 B258b


• Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism/ by Richard C. Longworth. 973.931 L859c


• Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World/ by John Ralston Saul. 303.482 S256c


• Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers Featuring Machines from the Computer History Museum/ by John Alderman, photographs by Mark Richards.
  004 R517c


• Global Risk: Business Success in Turbulent Times/ by Sean Cleary and Thierry Malleret. 303.482 C623g


• Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization/ by Bernard M. Hoekman and Marcelo Olarreaga. 303.482 G562g


• Globalization: The Key Concepts/ by Annabelle Mooney and Betsy Evans. 303.482 G562


• Unpacking Globalization: Markets, Gender, and Work/ by Linda E. Lucas, Ed.
  303.482 U58