Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, vol 1

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson ()

in MIT Press Books from The MIT Press

Abstract: Globalization is not a new phenomenon; nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom. The book's originality lies in its application of the tools of open-economy economics to this critical historical period--differentiating it from most previous work, which has been based on closed-economy or single-sector models. The authors also keep a close eye on globalization debates of the 1990s, using history to inform the present and vice versa.

Keywords: globalization; Atlantic economy; open-economy economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F41 N71 N73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-262-65059-2
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (316)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mtp:titles:0262650592

Access Statistics for this book

More books in MIT Press Books from The MIT Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by The MIT Press ().