Neoliberal Globalization: Causes, Consequences and Alternatives

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

Economic globalization is one of the most powerful drivers of social change in the contemporary world. Global economic integration has been underway for at least 500 years, but that process took a new turn in the 1980s. In this course, we'll focus on the causes and consequences of this new turn, which we'll call the neoliberal model of economic globalization. We'll also ask what it would take to change that model, and with it, the dynamics of economic globalization.