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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396463
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Commoditiy price volatility and world market integration since 1700
Jacks, David S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815455
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
, Sweden and the USA. These 19 countries form the panel data base which is used to explore the determinants of wage …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772451
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration Since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764828
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
, Sweden and the USA. These 19 countries form the panel data base which is used to explore the determinants of wage …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234038
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Globalization, Convergence and History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2022
years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321587
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463899
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2008
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464805
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Commodity price volatility and world market integration since 1700
Jacks, David S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845747