trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently …, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth in the poor periphery. This paper assess these de-industrialization … divergence between core and periphery. Third, the boom and its de-industrialization impact was only part of the story; growth …

controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade …

A market-size-only theory of industrialization cannot explain why England developed nearly two centuries before China … factor suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on spatial …

that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …

anticipated the collapse of the first era of globalization that began in the mid-nineteenth century. He admonished the short … organize: World War I, Bretton Woods, 1970s Great Inflation and Managed Floating. Each turning point was characterized by …

labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … the past three centuries to answer three questions: Has commodity price volatility increased over time? The answer is no … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The …

Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …