for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

period after World War II until the late- 1970s and the period since the late-1970s until the present. The shift has been … globalization that occurred since the late-1970s. This working paper provides a broad overview of key consequences of the economic … changes that occurred during the period since World War II to the present. It highlights the different impacts that hegemony …