the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …

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 …

organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …

cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …

of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold …

international monetary framework was responsible for the relatively short-lived and mild nature of pre-World War I financial crises …