Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark comparisons and time series extrapolations from other benchmarks. For a 1907 benchmark, Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop (2007) find German manufacturing to be only slightly ahead of...

Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Making Culture or Making Work? -- 2 The Frames and Forces of the Market -- 3 Same Local Traditions, Different Frames -- 4 The Flows of Production -- 5 Framing Authenticity -- 6 Conclusion: The Three Fs of Globalization -- Appendix: Study Design --...