Economic OutlookVolume 45, Issue 1 p. 33-35 ArticleFree to Read World economy First published: 26 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0319.12534AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley Onlin...

the contemporary globalization which is based on post-fordist economy, was formed on the basis of informational capitalism, and has been differentiated from other concepts due to some characteristics like information economy, global economy, and network economic activities.     the characteristics of post-fordist economy create a situation where capitals and productions are changed from place-...

It has been argued that terrorism should not have a large effect on economic activity, because terrorist attacks destroy only a small fraction of the stock of capital of a country (see, e.g., Becker, G., Murphy, K., 2001. Prosperity will rise out of the ashes. Wall Street Journal October 29, 2001). In contrast, empirical estimates of the consequences of terrorism typically suggest large effects...

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of some 30,000 SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI in the sector has a negative ef...

Several million people currently have accounts in massively multi-player online games, places in cyberspace that are effectively large-scale shared virtual reality environments. The population of these virtual worlds has grown rapidly since their inception in 1996; significantly, each world also seems to grow its own economy, with production, assets, and trade with Earth economies. This paper e...

This paper counters proponents of the Ôweightless economyÕ who have suggested the Ôdeath of distanceÕ in relation to economic and social activities that use the worldwide web (WWW). An analysis of new media developers in New YorkÕs ÔSilicon AlleyÕ demonstrates that place and distance are still important. The most important aspect of this co-location is the possibility of social interaction. Thi...

This article aims at proposing a new version of the Web, called The Web 2.2. This version tries to resolve the problem of the actual Web, such as the non-participation of the internet users on the production of the on line content, the huge mass of information, the poor quality of information, the non-respect of the copyrights and the commercial goal of the Web 2.0. Its objective is to add conc...