sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …

World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25% of world … supply-side influences (such as the demise of the Mughal empire) and how much to world price shocks (such as world market …

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First there are the world history scholars … like Andre Gunder Frank who attach globalization ‘big bang' significance to the dates 1492 (Christopher Columbus stumbles … important events in recorded history. Second, there is the view that the world economy was still fragmented before the 19th …