Research Catalog

Title

• Globalization in historical perspective / edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Bordo, Michael D.
• National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Taylor, Alan M., 1964-
• Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935-

Description

ix, 588 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Considers globalization in the context of the history of international trade. Its eleven papers explore a synthesized variety of topics, including how the process of globalization can be measured by the long-term integration of markets, what trends and questions develop as markets converge and diverge and others.

Series Statement

• National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

• National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
• University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Globalization > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Globalization > Social aspects
• International economic integration > Congresses
• International economic relations > Congresses
• International finance > Congresses
• International trade > Social aspects > Congresses

Note

• "The papers were presented at a preconference at the NBER in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 16 November 2000, and at a final conference held at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, on 3-6 May 2001"--Prelim. p. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Commodity market integration, 1500-2000 / Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Comment / Douglas A. Irwin -- International migration and the integration of labor markets / Barry R. Chiswick and Timothy J. Hatton. Comment / Riccardo Faini -- Globalization and capital markets / Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor. Comment / Richard Portes -- Globalization and convergence / Steve Dowrick and J. Bradford DeLong. Comment / Charles I. Jones -- Does globalization make the world more unequal? / Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Comment / Lant Pritchett -- Technology in the great divergence / Gregory Clark and Robert C. Feenstra. Comment / Joel Mokyr -- Globalization in history / Nicholas Crafts and Anthony J. Venables. Comment / Richard E. Baldwin -- Financial systems, economic growth, and globalization / Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla. Comment / Charles W. Calomiris -- Core, periphery, exchange rate regimes, and globalization / Michael D. Bordo and Marc Flandreau. Comment / Anna J. Schwartz -- Crises in the global economy from tulips to today / Larry Neal and Marc Weidenmier. Comment / Mark P. Taylor -- Monetary and financial reform in two eras of globalization / Barry Eichengreen and Harold James. Comment / Peter B. Kenen -- Globalization in interdisciplinary perspective : a panel / Clive Crook, Gerardo della Paolera, Niall Ferguson, Anne O. Krueger, Ronald Rogowski.

ISBN

• 0226065987 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226065995 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2002075080

OCLC

50767958

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library