variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …

variety of tests for world financial capital market integration ranging from the correlation of saving and investment …

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

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

in today’s world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to globalization … abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in …

World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal … globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … starts by exploring the disadvantages associated with geographic isolation from world markets and the transport revolutions …

in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the …Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Globalization and History -- 2 Convergence in History -- 3 …: Repeal of the Corn Laws -- 6 Globalization Backlash: Tariff Responses -- 7 Mass Migrations: Why They Moved -- 8 Mass …