Globalization: A Basic Text, 2nd Edition

GLOSSARY

Americanization

is the import by non-Americans of products, images, technologies, practices, and behavior that are closely associated with America/Americans.

Americanization without America

is a phenomenon where a nation-state can be Americanized by the spread of increasingly universal consumer capitalism without necessarily being affected by America per se.

Anthropocene

is a potential new geological era characterized by several accelerating human-made ecological changes, including mass extinctions, global warming, and oceanic changes, that are far-reaching and in many cases permanent.

Asylum seekers

are refugees who seek to remain in the country to which they flee.

Autarky

is the turn inward of a nation-state in order to create as much economic self-sufficiency as possible.

Brain drain

is the systematic loss by a given nation-state of people highly prized elsewhere in the world because of their great intellect and advanced training and education; those who have much intellectual capital.

Brain gain

refers to the possibility that nation-states, especially those that are developed, could be net gainers acquiring more people with an increased knowledge base than they lose.

Cap-and-trade

is a system that limits the total carbon emissions allowed, where companies buy permits in order to allow them to produce additional emissions with prices set by the market.

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