Value Migration

A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation.

Since the 1990s, the world has entered a new phase of globalisation. Information and communication technology, trade liberalisation and lower transport costs have enabled firms and countries to fragment the production process into global value chains (Gvcs).

For Free Movement Brian Barry and Robert E. Goodin have assembled an international team of leading philosophers, economists, political theorists, and specialists in international relations to examine an issue that is increasingly coming to dominate work politics: the flow of people and money across national boundaries.More and more people would like to migrate, but find that every state places barriers in their way. At the same time, most governments not only permit but court foreign investment.