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 …

, with the spread of globalization, there is a new periphery, Asia, but the same old core, the United States, with the same … interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

favorable nor unfavorable implication for world trade; instead the balance of trade-creating and trade-diverting effects …

In the public imagination globalization's adverse effects have loomed large, contributing significantly to the backlash … gains from trade, and it becomes larger relative to net gains from trade in the advanced stages of globalization …