… In our opinion, the global economy does not yet exist in its final form; there is simply an
economic system in which the economic and social development of most of humanity is rigidly
determined by the progress of the post-industrial world and its ability to influence the course
of events in other parts of the world. Of course, … In general, by our definition, globalization
is a multifaceted socio-historical, socio-economic and socio-cultural process of formation on
a global scale of integral structures and connections that are inherent in the world …