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It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine
Follow the global supply chain across borders and into your pill bottle.
The Globe-Trotting Journey of a Sneaker
Learn the pros and cons of the global supply chain process of making a popular Nike shoe in this video.
The Marshall Plan
Understand how the Marshall Plan, one of the first large foreign aid programs, helped Europe rebuild after World War II, but also served the foreign policy interests of the United States.
What Are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund?
What's the difference between the World Bank and the IMF? Understand two institutions that undergird global development and the international monetary system.
What Are the Causes and Consequences of Industrialization?
Learn about the Industrial Revolution and how technological innovations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries continue to shape society today.
What Is Colonialism and How Did It Arise?
Explore how colonialism enriched empires and fundamentally reshaped countries such as India.
How Did Mass Production and Mass Consumption Take Off After World War II?
Discover how consumer goods have become cheap and ubiquitous in the global era.
What Is Cryptocurrency?
Explore digital currency's uses and abuses in society.
What Is Economic Inequality?
Explore how severe inequalities and disparities in wealth and income can harm individuals, countries, and the global economy, and how some governments implement policies to reduce inequality.
Trade Policy
How should the United States leverage trade to respond when a rivalry between growing trade partners threatens regional stability? Explore this hypothetical simulation.