O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
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. The book's originality lies in its application of the tools of open-economy … economics to this critical historical period--differentiating it from most previous work, which has been based on closed-economy …