Roger White is Associate Professor of Economics and Douglas W. Ferguson Chair in International Economics at Whittier College, California, USA

• I. GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 1. Introducing Culture and Globalization 2. Waves of Globalization: Past and Present 3. The Unevenness of Economic Globalization 4. Dimensions of Cross-societal Cultural Differences II. DO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES HINDER ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION? 5. Expected Relationships between Cultural Distance and Facets of Economic Globalization 6. The Influences of Cultural Distance on International Trade 7. The Link between Cultural Distance and Foreign Direct Investment 8. Origin-Destination Cultural Distance and International Migration III. INTERPRETING A CULTURAL DISTANCE – ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION NEXUS 9. Economic Globalization and the Potential for Cultural Homogenization 10. The Implications of being Culturally Distant

Roger White is Associate Professor of Economics and Douglas W. Ferguson Chair in International Economics at Whittier College, California, USA

• I. GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 1. Introducing Culture and Globalization 2. Waves of Globalization: Past and Present 3. The Unevenness of Economic Globalization 4. Dimensions of Cross-societal Cultural Differences II. DO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES HINDER ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION? 5. Expected Relationships between Cultural Distance and Facets of Economic Globalization 6. The Influences of Cultural Distance on International Trade 7. The Link between Cultural Distance and Foreign Direct Investment 8. Origin-Destination Cultural Distance and International Migration III. INTERPRETING A CULTURAL DISTANCE – ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION NEXUS 9. Economic Globalization and the Potential for Cultural Homogenization 10. The Implications of being Culturally Distant

Roger White is Associate Professor of Economics and Douglas W. Ferguson Chair in International Economics at Whittier College, California, USA

• I. GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 1. Introducing Culture and Globalization 2. Waves of Globalization: Past and Present 3. The Unevenness of Economic Globalization 4. Dimensions of Cross-societal Cultural Differences II. DO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES HINDER ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION? 5. Expected Relationships between Cultural Distance and Facets of Economic Globalization 6. The Influences of Cultural Distance on International Trade 7. The Link between Cultural Distance and Foreign Direct Investment 8. Origin-Destination Cultural Distance and International Migration III. INTERPRETING A CULTURAL DISTANCE – ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION NEXUS 9. Economic Globalization and the Potential for Cultural Homogenization 10. The Implications of being Culturally Distant