Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 2, Free University of Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut), course: Globalization and Governance: The case of the Internet, language: English, abstract: The essay's hypothesis is to suggest, globalization has led to increasing inequality and now matters for the business world. Therefore it describes globalization and income inequality in the context of specific business matters. To discuss and fa-vour – or disfavour – the hypothesis, the author has divided these matters into three consecutive dimensions: the ethical, the political and the economical.