participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved - adequate collective …

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 …