PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights the Battle for the World Economy
A huge site dedicated to an understanding of the current global economic system. Includes the history, forces, values and perceptions that have shaped the world's economy. A comprehensive resource that includes a detailed economic report...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wide Angle: Barshefsky Interview
Wide Angle video of Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative, discussing her views on economic change in China and China's participation in the World Trade Organization. [1:50]
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires
Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...