Our reflection this week focuses on global economic issues and problems of the 21st century. For this week, describe and discuss at least 3, preferably 5 of the most important global economic issues and problems relevant in the 21st century.

Our reflection this week focuses on global economic issues and problems of the 21st century. For this week, describe and discuss at least 3, preferably 5 of the most important global economic issues and problems relevant in the 21st century. Utilize your readings and video from this week to support your answers, in addition to your own sources, which you must cite.

Readings

Blair H. Sheppard. Ten Years to Midnight : Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. Vol. 1st edition, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2020. EBSCOhost

Chapter 1: What Worries Us (NOTE: You may need to use the Table of Contents on the left-side of this link to navigate to the top of the chapter)

Chapter 11: Massive and Fast: Problems that Cannot Wait (NOTE: You may need to use the Table of Contents on the left-side of this link to navigate to the top of the chapter)

Videos

Globalization (8:10)

The world is becoming more and more interconnected. Globalization changes how people consume, work and live almost everywhere in the world. Today, many economic, political, cultural or ecological relationships are not explainable from a national perspective. At the same time, a controversial debate about the consequences of globalization has begun.

But what are the main causes for globalization? In what areas it is most prominent? And who are the winners and losers of globalization?

These are the questions this animated video clip of the WissensWerte series deals with.