countries gain more from trade? Do world trade booms over the past two centuries help account for the widening gap between rich …, and the answer is yes to all three. World trade booms have always been associated with commodity price booms and thus with …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

from the zenith of the Atlantic slave trade (1790s) to the eve of World War II (1939). Drawing evidence from a new dataset …