Understanding Legitimacy in a Changing Global Economy

Modify and Adapt: Global Higher Education in a Changing Economy

The combinations of global networking and digital delivery have intense repercussions for higher education administrators who confront a magnitude of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor fro...

The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching

This article analyzes the emergence of a new stage of global capitalism, called informationalism, and its consequences for English language teaching, focusing on three critical issues. First, globalization will result in the further spread of English as an international language and a shift of authority to nonnative speakers and dialects. This change will call into question basic notions of lan...

Refounding Legitimacy Toward a Global Immune System

Political Economy in a Changing World∗

We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights, or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power and in economic structure. We focus on Markov Voting Equilibria, which require that economic and polit...

Performance Support for the Next Millenium: a model for rapidly changing technologies in a global. economy

Consumers of popular desktop software have been amused, appalled, occasionally assisted, and most likely infuriated by a Planning Wizard, an Office Assistant, or other manifestation of an interventionist help apparition. If not, then they have encountered a noninterventionist form of assistance, such as a standard context-sensitive help file. These are the manifestations of years of development...