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Title Globalization in historical perspective / edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 588 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Note "The papers were presented at a preconference at the NBER in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 16 November 2000, and at a final conference held at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, on 3-6 May 2001"--Prelimimary p. ix.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Commodity market integration, 1500-2000 / Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Comment / Douglas A. Irwin -- International migration and the integration of labor markets / Barry R. Chiswick and Timothy J. Hatton. Comment / Riccardo Faini -- Globalization and capital markets / Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor. Comment / Richard Portes -- Globalization and convergence / Steve Dowrick and J. Bradford DeLong. Comment / Charles I. Jones -- Does globalization make the world more unequal? / Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Comment / Lant Pritchett -- Technology in the great divergence / Gregory Clark and Robert C. Feenstra. Comment / Joel Mokyr -- Globalization in history / Nicholas Crafts and Anthony J. Venables. Comment / Richard E. Baldwin -- Financial systems, economic growth, and globalization / Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla. Comment / Charles W. Calomiris -- Core, periphery, exchange rate regimes, and globalization / Michael D. Bordo and Marc Flandreau. Comment / Anna J. Schwartz -- Crises in the global economy from tulips to today / Larry Neal and Marc Weidenmier. Comment / Mark P. Taylor -- Monetary and financial reform in two eras of globalization / Barry Eichengreen and Harold James. Comment / Peter B. Kenen -- Globalization in interdisciplinary perspective : a panel / Clive Crook, Gerardo della Paolera, Niall Ferguson, Anne O. Krueger, Ronald Rogowski.
Summary As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration. This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be meas.
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Subject International economic integration -- Congresses.
International economic integration.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
International trade -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
International trade -- Social aspects.
International finance -- Congresses.
International finance -- Congresses.
International economic relations -- Congresses.
International economic relations -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Bordo, Michael D.
Taylor, Alan M., 1964-
Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935-
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Other Form: Print version: Globalization in historical perspective. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003 0226065987 9780226065984 (DLC) 2002075080 (OCoLC)50767958
ISBN 9780226065991 (electronic book)
0226065995 (electronic book)
1281125342
9781281125347