This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … markets also reduced the cheap capital advantage of the leaders. However, ever-cheaper labor was not a serious cause of …

Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid …

its cause? The conventional wisdom in the world history literature offers globalization as the answer: it alleges that … European import demand and foreign export supply from Asia and the Americas. The behaviour of the relative price of foreign …

answer is less. Three centuries of history show unambiguously that economic isolation caused by war or autarkic policy has … early 19th century; but it did not do so after the 1970s as the Third World shifted to labor-intensive manufactures. Whether …

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First there are the world history scholars … important events in recorded history. Second, there is the view that the world economy was still fragmented before the 19th …