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The Contemporary World
Lesson 2 – Global Economy and Market Integration
Overview of the Lesson
1. The Global Economy and Economic Globalization
2. Types of Economies in Economic Globalization
3. Global Free Trade
4. The Development of Market Integration
5. International Trading System
6. Neoliberalism
7. Transnational Corporations
Economic Globalization
Global Economy
international exchange of goods and
services
free movement of goods, capital,
services, technology, and information.
Economic Globalization
Interdependence of world economies
Historical process
Integration of economies
Types of Economies
Free Trade Protectionism
trade practices that impede the preferential treatment to
free flow of goods and services domestic producers and
from one country to another are discriminating against foreign
removed or reduced. competitors.
Development of Market
Integration
Identify the phase of the
development of market integration
(agricultural revolution, industrial
revolution, information revolution)
1. People started working in factories
as wage laborers and became more
specialized in their skills.
2. Farming helped societies build
surpluses, meaning not everyone
had to spend their time producing
food.
3. People learned how to
domesticate animals and plants.
4. In this period, jobs are distinguished as
primary labor market (white-collar
professions) and secondary labor market
(blue-collar professions).
5. This is a period wherein technology has reduced
the role of human labor and shifted it from a
manufacturing-based economy to one that is based
on service work and the production of ideas rather
than goods.
Capitalism or Socialism?
1. It emphasizes profit maximization and
competition as the main drivers of
efficiency.
2. It rejects the private property and
hands-off approach.
3. A system wherein the means of
production are under collective
ownership.
4. A system in which all-natural
resources and means of production
are privately owned.
Transnation
al
Corporations
Questions? Insights?