Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Globalisation written by Jonathan Michie and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalisation impacts almost all aspects of our lives. Smart-phones give access to news, documents and communications instantaneously and globally. It is said that change is accelerating, and the nation state is increasingly anachronistic. This book challenges that consensus. Globalisation is as old as capitalism, as is technological change. The reduced power of national governments is due to the free-market form of globalisation created by the 1980s administrations of Thatcher and Reagan leading to the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and recession. We need to move beyond this, taxing wealth and speculation to create a new era of sustainable development, globally.