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Globalization and history : the evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy / Kevin H. OʾRourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.Description: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262150492 (alk. paper)
  • 0262650592 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337.1/1821 21
LOC classification:
  • HF1711 .O'RO 1999
Contents:
1. Globalization and History -- 2. Convergence in History -- 3. Transport Revolutions and Commodity Market Integration -- 4. Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? -- 5. The Politics of Free Trade: Repeal of the Corn Laws -- 6. Globalization Backlash: Tariff Responses -- 7. Mass Migrations: Why They Moved -- 8. Mass Migrations: Impact on Labor Markets, Home and Abroad -- 9. Globalization, Relative Factor Price Convergence and Inequality -- 10. Globalization Backlash: Migration Policy Gets Restrictive -- 11. Forging and Breaking Global Capital Markets -- 12. International Capital Flows: Causes and Consequences -- 13. Trade and Factor Flows: Substitutes or Complements? -- 14. Lessons from History -- App. Trade Theory and Computable General Equilibrium.̃
Review: "Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914 - the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-336) and index.

1. Globalization and History -- 2. Convergence in History -- 3. Transport Revolutions and Commodity Market Integration -- 4. Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? -- 5. The Politics of Free Trade: Repeal of the Corn Laws -- 6. Globalization Backlash: Tariff Responses -- 7. Mass Migrations: Why They Moved -- 8. Mass Migrations: Impact on Labor Markets, Home and Abroad -- 9. Globalization, Relative Factor Price Convergence and Inequality -- 10. Globalization Backlash: Migration Policy Gets Restrictive -- 11. Forging and Breaking Global Capital Markets -- 12. International Capital Flows: Causes and Consequences -- 13. Trade and Factor Flows: Substitutes or Complements? -- 14. Lessons from History -- App. Trade Theory and Computable General Equilibrium.̃

"Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914 - the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.

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