Exam 15: Globalization: the Interconnected World

Matthias is taking a course in political studies.He is learning about various economic philosophies that have proliferated in the past 100 years.Which term best describes the economic concept that "prosperity and democracy will flourish when market forces are unimpeded by government"?

Which term best describes globality?

Antonella lives in Toronto.While visiting New York,she stopped to eat Chinese food on her way to a Hungarian film festival.Before going home,she went and bought a pair of shoes made in Brazil and a purse made in Italy.According to the text,the travel,food,film,shoes,and purse are all part of which dimension of globalization?

Which of the following is NOT reasonably considered a cause of the "race to the bottom"?

Which of the following best describes globalization?

Which economic organization allows less powerful nations to have the same degree of participation as more powerful nations?

Explain dependency theory's contention that the greed of rich countries is a source of increasing impoverishment of the poorer nations and their people.

The distribution of wealth internationally is such that three-quarters of the people living in the world own what percentage of the wealth?

It was not unusual for colonial powers to bring together disparate groups by drawing arbitrary borders around them.According to the textbook,what has this resulted in?