formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that …

over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …

abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … in today’s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization …

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

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 …