globalisation - please help (1 Viewer)

[Rickdog]

hi
does abybody have any good information about globalisation such as
- characteristics
- statistics
- pros/cons
- increases

please reply

 

[Sarah168]

err your textbook might be a start...do u want ADDITIONAL info?

 

[alien]

hi
does abybody have any good information about globalisation such as
- characteristics
- statistics
- pros/cons
- increases

please reply

i could give you a definition and answers to some of that stuff in geography terms, i dunno about eco

 

[Rickdog]

err your textbook might be a start...do u want ADDITIONAL info?

we dont have textbooks yet and have to do an assessment task by research, so additional info

 

[Ednaw]

Globalisation is characterised by increased integration of global financial markets, and increased trade flows.
Since the 1980's transfer of g+s has increased 300% fdi is up 400% and portfolio investment is up 700%
Globalisation means that goods and services are produced by the most efficient producers, and those countries can attain allocative effienciency thus gaining economies of scale, however through the process of globalisation economies are more prone to to follow the international business cycle as domestic markets rely more and more on foreign markets
increases :S i hav no idea wat u meant, but yeh thats reallly short form of the stuff u asked for. Hopefully it helped

 

[Rickdog]

thanks, that helps.
is there a website you know of where i could find that sorta stuff?

 

[Ednaw]

Website...not really, jus use the textbooks ask ur teacher, read the notes they give u and jus read up about recent economic trends etc

 

[hyperbole]

thanks, that helps.
is there a website you know of where i could find that sorta stuff?

Try going to www.hsc.csu.edu.au and then click on the economics link.
The site basically summaries the entire course for you, and they also provide multiple choice and revision exercises.

 

[miffytoki]

look up the notes on the resources pages...but just to be nice...here are my notes from my globalisation days (i've finished high school) ..there are some gaps in it where i've hand written stuff or received notes from my teacher that have already been summariesed but they haven't been scanned in or anything..u will need to supplement this with u're own notes...it also does not include my case study (china) .....use this as a general background if u need essays on organsiations or treaties or forums gimme a msg and i'll get back to you...i have a tonne of notes from yr 12 that i'm not doing anything with....

 

[Bambul]

Try the Commanding Heights website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/index.html

The countries section has some countries and brief economic histories of them. The people section is also good (click on people, then profession). The list is quite large so I recommend the following people:

Thea Lee (Labor)
Bill Clinton (Government)
Mahathir Mohamad (Government)
Lawrence Summers (Government)
Paul Volcker (Central Bankers)
Milton Friedman (Economists)
Jeffrey Sachs (Economists)
Joseph Stiglitz (Economists)

If that list is too long (and it is much smaller than the atleast 20 or 30 interviews on that site) then just read Milton Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz. They will each give you the two sides of the modern globalisation debate. However I found that once I understood what globalisation was all about the whole topic just made a lot more sense so I really do recommend you take a look at all 8 of those interviews if you get the chance.

In your course you will cover the Friedman perspective more (that's the pro-market one). He is arguably the most famous economist post World War II.

 

[Rickdog]

thanks for the help ppl