Umfang:
1 online resource (348 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780367265083
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9781000596816
Inhalt:
This is a concise economic history of the global economy over the past thousand years, exploring the main waves of globalization, starting from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, focusing on the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East and the North and the South of the World
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: The structural characteristics of preindustrial economies -- 1.1: From the Neolithic Revolution to the Bronze Age urbanrevolution -- 1.2: The structural features of agrarian economies -- 1.3: Late-mediaeval economies and the impact of the Black Death -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The "Great Divergence" -- 2.1: Opening closed worlds -- 2.2: The Great Divergence: causes and timing -- 2.3: Beyond Eurasia: America, Africa and Oceania -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: New players, new institutions -- 3.1: From south to north -- 3.2: Origins of the Little Divergence -- 3.3: On both sides of the Atlantic -- Bibliography -- Demographic transition -- Chapter 4: The Industrial Revolution: technology and society -- 4.1: A long-term process -- 4.2: Foreign trade, empire, mercantilism -- 4.3: Early structural transformation -- 4.4: The technological revolution: stages, sectors and innovations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Why Europe? Why Britain? -- 5.1: Why Europe? Culture, institutions, economic incentives -- 5.2: Why Britain? A peculiar combination of factors -- Bibliography -- The industrial revolution -- Chapter 6: An unstoppable process -- 6.1: The dynamics of "peaceful conquest" in European industrialization -- 6.2: The universal banks -- 6.3: The state's role in the backward countries -- 6.4: Industrialization and the reactivity of the socio-economic fabric -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: A new world balance -- 7.1: The Second Industrial Revolution -- 7.2: A new leading figure: big business -- 7.3: Technological change: constraints and opportunities -- 7.4: Towards a new global scenario -- Bibliography -- Workplace organization -- Chapter 8: The Western model and its limits -- 8.1: Tsarist Russia -- 8.2: Reform from above: Imperial Japan
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16.4: Political instability -- 16.5: Asian destinies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17: From Keynes to neoliberalism -- 17.1: The end of Keynesian economics -- 17.2: The 1970s recession -- 17.3: Retreat of the public sector in the West -- 17.4: Privatizations in Europe -- 17.5: Why privatize, how to privatize -- 17.6: Privatization and development -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18: Third world, "third worlds" -- 18.1: Fragmentation of the Third World -- 18.2: A legacy of the past -- 18.3: The disadvantages of the latecomers -- 18.4: Sectors and companies -- 18.5: Developmental states -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19: The end of a great dream -- 19.1: A crisis with deep roots -- 19.2: Gorbachev's impossible dream -- 19.3: The difficult return to the market economy -- 19.4: Towards a new State capitalism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 20: Unstable leadership -- 20.1: Reagan's America: reviving the economy and reducing the role of the state -- 20.2: Japan's lost challenge -- 20.3: The dynamic recovery of the United States -- 20.4: China in the global economy: political repression and economic reform -- Bibliography -- Chapter 21: Europe in search of an identity -- 21.1: The end of the Cold War and German Reunification -- 21.2: The terms imposed by the Treaty of Maastricht -- 21.3: Arrival of the euro -- 21.4: The origins of the European crisis -- Bibliography -- Chapter 22: The globalized world -- 22.1: BRICS -- 22.2: The success of the market and state intervention in Asia -- 22.3: The commodities boom and development of south-south economic relations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 23: A different kind of crisis? -- 23.1: The origins of the financial crisis -- 23.2: Bailing out the banking systems -- 23.3: Uncertainties after the crisis -- Bibliography -- Chapter 24: In praise of history -- Authors
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8.3: The Meiji Restoration -- 8.4: China in the late Qing period -- 8.5: Latin America -- Bibliography -- Mass emigration from Europe -- Chapter 9: The first phase of globalization -- 9.1: The (first) Great Depression and neomercantilism -- 9.2: The gold standard and the City at its height -- 9.3: Imperialism -- Bibliography -- International monetary systems -- Chapter 10: The Great War: the end of a world -- 10.1: Interpretation of the war: discontinuity and social revolution -- 10.2: Total war: industrial planning and mobilization -- 10.3: The geopolitical and economic consequences -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: The post-war years: the age of insecurity -- 11.1: The difficult return to the international monetary system -- 11.2: German hyperinflation -- 11.3: Economic expansion in the 1920s -- 11.4: The Soviet Union -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: The crisis of capitalism -- 12.1: The Wall Street Crash -- 12.2: The Depression -- 12.3: The Keynesian revolution -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: State intervention -- 13.1: The New Deal -- 13.2: Germany -- 13.3: Italy -- 13.4: The Soviet Union -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: The Second World War: "Creative Destruction" -- 14.1: Destruction and creation -- 14.2: War and growth -- 14.3: Investments and foreign trade -- 14.4: The sectors in war: agriculture and raw materials -- 14.5: Growth of the arms industry -- 14.6: Planning for combat -- 14.7: War and big science -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Prosperity at last -- 15.1: "Greenhouse with cyclamens" -- 15.2: Europe destroyed -- 15.3: The European Recovery Program -- 15.4: Trade and international agreements -- 15.5: Mixed economy, nationalizations and development policies -- 15.6: Miracle, miracles -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Decolonization: lights and (many) shadows -- 16.1: Rich and poor -- 16.2: The nature of underdevelopment -- 16.3: Decolonization
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Print version Amatori, Franco The Global Economy Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2019 ISBN 9780367265083
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Englisch
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