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National economies have become far more integrated and interdependent than they were only thirty years ago. Over the last two decades, the term ‘global’ began to be used in various phrases (e.g., ‘the global economy’ or ‘the global marketplace,’ and on the cultural front, Marshall MacLuhan coined the phrase ‘the global village’ back in the 1960s). Globalization itself became the fashionable platitude of the 1990s. Indeed, globalization is treated either as a convenient catchword alluding to a myriad of discrete changes or, as an explanatory concept, it is shorthand for a new theory of capitalistic development at the eve of the new millennium. It is either trite or mythical.
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Dobuzinskis, L. (2000). Global Discord: the Confusing Discourse of Think-tanks. In: Cohn, T.H., McBride, S., Wiseman, J. (eds) Power in the Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984413_2
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