A leading authority on economic globalization argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe …

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 …

, globalization has been good for growth in poor countries at least by diminishing price volatility. But comparative advantage has … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

more than a half of the falling inequality in Europe. It also appears that the inequality trends which globalization …The late 19th and the late 20th century shared more than simply globalization and convergence. Globalization also seems … Borjas and Wood think that globalization accounted for something like a third to a half of the rise in inequality in America …

knot : the globalization and great divergence connection -- Better late than never : industrialization spreads to the poor …

years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in … world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … causal: the globalization of commodity and factor markets served to play a critical, perhaps the critical, role in …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …