Getting Closer or Drifting Apart?
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 119 (3) , 971-1009
- https://doi.org/10.1162/0033553041502199
Abstract
Advances in communication and transportation technologies have the potential to bring people closer together and create a “global village.” However,Keywords
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