in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor … labor and environmental policies, and would lead to a significant loss of sovereignty for national governments. In this … labor and environmental standards, and that with relatively modest changes that grant governments more sovereignty, not less …

establish plausible necessary and sufficient conditions for a move from anarchy toward the rule of law to benefit all traders …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-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 …

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 …