Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …

have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … provided. We test both hypotheses using calibrated general equilibrium models of the British economy and the rest of the world … trade with the rest of the world, not the American colonies, that allowed Britain to export its rapidly expanding textile …

, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …

Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th Century? To …