The paper explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests that in those fields...

Globalisation is ambivalent. On the one hand, it brings prosperity, comfort and convenience in the formof economic growth, technological advancement, more open and democratic governance, and so forth.On the other hand, there are vast amounts of casualties from its progress, which only benefits...

Much of the literature on economic change in the post-1945 world is permeated by two ideas: the temporal convergence of per capita incomes across economies and the spatial advance of free trade. For many economists and historians the two are linked: the reduction of trade barriers in the...

This paper analyses the transformation of two of the staple trades of the pre-modern international economy –those in wool and dried codfish– during the transition from the late medieval to the early-modern period. The development of early modern long-distance trade was subject to three major...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen gehört heute zweifelsohne zu einem wichtigenFaktor für den Unternehmenserfolg. Deshalb gewinnen die Ideen der Mitarbeiter, wie auchdie von externen Interessensgruppen, immer mehr an Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag stellt dasKonzept des Integrierten...

It is not easy to write the ‘long-term’ economic history of any region in India -- which may account for the fact that very few such histories have been written. One obvious problem concerns the availability of data: where a paucity of sources for the pre-colonial period suddenly becomes...

One of the most contentious issues in Chinese history has been the assessment of foreign involvement in the Chinese economy since the end of the nineteenth century. Following Allen and Donnithorne's 1954 publication Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development which claimed the limited...