In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both … of transportation integrated world commodity markets and caused a boom in trade between the core and the periphery. Rapid …'s pioneering work on globalization, the book documents these laws of motion in the periphery, assesses their distribution and …

In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both … of transportation integrated world commodity markets and caused a boom in trade between the core and the periphery. Rapid …'s pioneering work on globalization, the book documents these laws of motion in the periphery, assesses their distribution and …

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey … prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom. The book's originality lies in its application of the tools of open …-economy or single-sector models. The authors also keep a close eye on globalization debates of the 1990s, using history to inform …

Given the intensity of the current debate about the impact of globalization on brain drain in the Third World and … inequality in the First World, it might be useful to look at these forces during the first global century, ending in 1914. This … high-wage, labor-scarce overseas New World economies. It reviews the distribution impact everywhere in the Atlantic economy …

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards …

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world … is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a … economic historian Jeffrey G. Williamson traces the great divergence between the third world and the West to this nexus of …

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

the world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world … evidence drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration …