It has recently become popular to argue that globalization has had or will soon have dramatic consequences for the … banks. In this paper, I consider three possible mechanisms through which it might be feared that globalization can undermine … that globalization, even of a much more thorough sort than has yet occurred, is unlikely to weaken the ability of national …

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the interaction between globalization and political structure. We … early stages, the political response to globalization consists of removing borders by increasing country size. In its later … stages, however, the political response to globalization is to remove borders by creating international unions, and this …

history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …

In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is …

globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal …