Economy. Firstly, it aims to deepen our understanding of the emergence of the BRICs in the world economy. To this end, a … macroeconomic analysis is carried out with the aim of making clear the changes the BRICs have brought to the world economy. Secondly …, an analysis is made of the extent to which the global economic crisis has enhanced the role of the BRICs in the world …

Question? -- 1. The future of globalisation / Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson -- 2. Financial globalization?: history … crisis / Gary Dymski -- 7. The multiplicity of distributional outcomes across the world: diversities of fundamentals or … corporations in the world economy / Gerald Epstein -- 10. Foreign direct investment and development from a gender perspective …

The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many … seems little understood. In turn, there has been little preparation for, or adjustment to, this changing world, though if …. We highlight the dramatic degree of the shifts taking place in world GDP and trade and include fresh projections of what …