Cultural globalisation, institutional diversity and the unequal accumulation of intellectual capital
探讨文化全球化如何推动制度标准化与多样性之间的张力，指出全球知识产权制度可能限制资本主义多样性，导致智力资本的不平等积累。
National economies used to be characterised by cultural standardisation and social protection. Globalisation pushes cultural standardisation beyond the boundaries of national states and induces a global dilution of the standards of social protection. At the same time, if national economies specialise according to their comparative institutional advantage, global economic integration may help promote institutional diversity and variety in welfare policies. However, the institution of a global system of intellectual property rights may seriously limit the ‘biodiversity’ of capitalism and imply a global revenge of a new international form of Taylorism. The overall result may be a very unequal accumulation of intellectual capital. Paradoxically, the modern global economy may end up sharing some aspects of the agrarian societies that have been displaced by modern nation states.