A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First, there are the world history … were the two most important events in recorded history. Second, there is the view that the world economy was fragmented and … global economy that world historians assign to them, while there is plenty of evidence of a very big bang in the 19th century …

This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …

This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …

experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …

will be pleased to hear that it probably accounted for more than a third of the rising inequality in the New World and for … produced prior to World War I were at least partly responsible for the interwar retreat from globalization. Will the world …

regimes: 1830 to the late 1850s, the 1850s to World War I, the interwar decades, and the post-World War II experience. Third …