Hacker News with Generative AI: Globalization

A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus (peterfrankopan.substack.com)
As a historian of exchange, I am conscious that goods that travel long-distances, are shiny or unusual get all the glory: a lot of history is mundane, low-key and local.

History, Globalization, Trade

64 points by themgt 35 days ago | 15 comments

Why did U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years? (noahpinion.blog)
A week ago I wrote a post arguing that globalization didn’t hollow out the American middle class (as many people believe):

Economics, Globalization, Wages, United States

90 points by paulpauper 39 days ago | 157 comments

The secretive US factory that lays bare the contradiction in America First plan (bbc.com)
Among the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.

Manufacturing, Politics, US Economy, Globalization, Arizona

7 points by ranit 40 days ago | 1 comments

Global Job Seekers' Interest in Foreign Roles Slowed Dramatically in 2024 (hiringlab.org)
Beginning in August 2024 and continuing into early 2025, global job seekers' interest in jobs outside their home country plummeted.

Recruitment, Globalization

4 points by ChrisArchitect 45 days ago | 0 comments

A Trade Breakdown (lynalden.com)
This newsletter issue breaks down the recent trade breakdown (sorry for the pun) and explores some of the nuances of why realigning the global balance of trade is both popular and extremely difficult to do.

Economics, Trade, Politics, Globalization

12 points by alihm 54 days ago | 6 comments

Most of the World Can't Code (ycombinator.com)
Programming is only accessible to those who understand English and the Latin alphabet.

Programming, Accessibility, Language, Globalization

10 points by jayathra 102 days ago | 41 comments

How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade (theverge.com)
The premise was that the side effects and the unintended consequences of globalization since World War II were creating its demise.

Politics, Economics, International Trade, Globalization

16 points by stevenwoo 102 days ago | 4 comments

There are no pure cultures – we have always been global (aeon.co)
In the 1990s, an entire generation was robbed of its historical consciousness by a powerful and seemingly unprecedented tale.

History, Culture, Globalization

40 points by Tomte 168 days ago | 51 comments

A New World Order Is Here, and It Looks a Lot Like Mercantilism (bloomberg.com)
“The crisis was not a failure of the free-market system,” declared George W. Bush in November 2008. “And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. It is to fix the problems we face, make the reforms we need and move forward with the free markets principles that have delivered prosperity and hope to people across the world.”

Politics, Economics, Globalization

10 points by petethomas 217 days ago | 2 comments

The rise of the U.S., the rise of China (construction-physics.com)
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan in the second half of the 20th century, and (to a lesser extent) China today.

Manufacturing, Economics, Globalization, History, China

140 points by hunglee2 238 days ago | 291 comments

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world (economist.com)
Two big shifts are under way in the world of software development.

Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, Software Development

72 points by belter 271 days ago | 108 comments

The German problem? It's an analogue country in a digital world (theguardian.com)

Germany, Digital Transformation, Analogue Technology, Society, Globalization

34 points by doener 297 days ago | 48 comments

Keeping Value Chains at Home (merics.org)

Supply Chains, Economics, Globalization

4 points by akyuu 319 days ago | 0 comments

Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world (axios.com)