battle to be top dog
- Written by Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
A world map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library/Wikimedia Commons, CC BYFor nearly four centuries, the world economy has been on a path of ever-greater integration that even two world wars could not totally derail. This long march of globalisation was powered by rap...







