Umfang:
1 online resource (387 pages)
Ausgabe:
5th ed.
ISBN:
9780415476096
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9781135010652
Inhalt:
Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. For this fifth edition, Michael Graff has brought the story up to date to include events from the early part of the twenty first century - continued globalization, the emergence of Asia as an economic power and the greater role played by business on the international scene. Beginning with the industrial revolution, the book charts the long nineteenth century, the impact of colonialism, the fast pace of technology growth and the impact of global wars. New features to this edition include: a prologue explaining the initial conditions faced by the world economy in 1820, detailing the beginnings of international trade and the influence of slavery greater coverage of developing countries increased coverage of World Wars I and II and of the twentieth century a number of appendices outlining the economic concepts and theories underlying the text This new edition of Growth of the International Economy provides the reader with a clear understanding of the factors which have been instrumental in creating the economic environment we face two hundred years after the industrial revolution
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2015 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Prologue: The International Economy from the Beginnings to 1820 -- The Palaeolithic period -- The Neolithic period -- Antiquity -- Middle ages -- Modernity -- The Atlantic economy -- Appendix 1: Economic output and macroeconomic accounting -- Appendix 2: Early financial manias and crashes -- Appendix 3: Why Europe? Why Britain? -- Part I The International Economy, 1820-1913 -- 1 The Causes of the Growth of the International Economy in the Nineteenth Century -- Technological progress: Industry and agriculture -- Technical progress: Transport and communications -- The accumulation of capital -- The growth of world population -- The supply of natural resources -- The growth of real incomes -- The spread of economic liberalism -- The growth of international trade -- 2 International Long-Term Capital Movements, 1820-1913 -- The growth of foreign investment -- Direction of foreign investment -- Determinants of capital outflow -- The use of foreign funds in borrowing countries -- Economic consequences of foreign investment -- 3 International Migration, 1820-1913 -- European migration, 1821-1913 -- Migration and its causes -- Aids to mass emigration -- Economic consequences of migration -- Intracontinental migration -- Asiatic migration and tropical development -- Summary and outlook -- 4 Commercial Policy in the Nineteenth Century -- Britain adopts free trade -- The spread of free trade -- The economic consequences of free trade -- The return to protection -- The economic consequences of protection -- 5 Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- The growth of world trade up to 1913 -- The direction of world trade up to 1913 -- The composition of world trade up to 1913
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18 International Monetary Relations, 1945-2000 -- The IMF: 1947-61 -- The IMF in the 1960s -- Uncertain years, 1971-6 -- The post-Jamaican period, 1976-2000 -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The quantity theory as a theory of the demand for money -- 19 The GATT, the WTO and International Commercial Policy, 1947-2000 -- The early years, 1947-60 -- The GATT, The WTO and commercial policy, 1960-2000 -- Concluding remarks -- 20 Trade and Growth in the International Economy: The Developed Countries, 1945-2000 -- World trade -- Economic growth in the advanced countries, 1950-2000 -- 21 Trade and Growth in the International Economy: The Periphery, 1945-2000 -- The developing economies -- The centrally planned economies -- The countries in transition -- 22 The New Millennium, 2001-12 -- Introduction -- The evolution of world trade since 2000 -- Major facts and events in the international economy, 2001-12 -- International organizations, treaties and cooperation -- 23 The International Economy Until 2015 and Beyond -- A summary: 1820-2015 -- Projections for the world economy, 2010-2015 -- Challenges for the twenty-first century -- Bibliography -- Index
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Conclusions -- 6 The Evolution of a Multilateral Payments Network -- Introduction -- Development of the system -- Foreign investment and the multilateral settlements network -- Concluding remarks -- 7 The Evolution of an International Monetary System: The Gold Standard Until 1914 -- Bimetallic and monometallic standards -- Britain adopts the gold standard -- International monetary standards up to 1870 -- The spread of the gold standard -- The role of sterling as an international currency and the importance of the London capital market -- The working of the gold standard -- Divergence between classical theory and empirical evidence -- Other features of the adjustment mechanism -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: History of money from its origins to 1914 -- Appendix 2: The quantity theory of money -- 8 International Aspects of Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century: The Spread of Industrialization -- Introduction -- The spread of industrialization -- The contribution of the international economy -- Causes of the limited spread of industrialization -- Conclusions -- 9 International Aspects of Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century: The Export Economies -- Introduction -- Regions of recent settlement -- The export economies -- Economic imperialism and colonialism -- 10 Trends and Fluctuations in the International Economy Up to 1913 -- The international transmission of business cycles -- Long swings and the international economy -- Long-run trends in the terms of trade -- Phases of growth -- Appendix: International business cycles - concepts and definitions -- Part II The First World War and the Interwar Years -- 11 The International Economy from 1914 to 1939 -- The First World War -- The international economy after the First World War -- Primary production -- Population growth and migration -- Manufacturing production -- Growth of world incomes
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The intensification of protectionism -- 12 The Restoration of the Gold Standard and the Economic Recovery of the 1920s -- Post-war inflation and the restoration of the gold standard -- Weaknesses in the post-war gold standard: International investment -- Institutional weaknesses of the restored gold standard -- The economic boom of the late 1920s -- 13 The Collapse of the Gold Standard and the Disintegration of the International Economy -- Crisis in agriculture -- Financial crisis in Europe -- The end of the gold standard -- Growth of restrictions on finance and trade -- International financial cooperation -- Regional economic cooperation -- International commodity control schemes -- Conclusions -- 14 International Trade During the Interwar Period -- The growth of world trade in the interwar years -- The direction of world trade between the wars -- The changing composition of world trade -- The diminishing trade hypothesis -- 15 The Great Depression: An Overview -- The US and the Great Depression -- Other factors in the Great Depression -- Long-run factors and the Great Depression -- Part III The Second World War and the Post-1945 International Economy -- 16 The International Economy from 1939 to 1950 -- The Second World War -- Planning the future international economy and the transitional period, 1944-50 -- The Bretton Woods conference -- The International Monetary Fund -- The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development -- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- Post-war reconstruction -- 17 The International Economy, 1950-2000 -- Economic growth, an overview -- Population growth and migration -- International capital flows: Private investment -- International capital flows: Foreign aid and other resource flows to developing countries -- Technical change and world trade -- Concluding remarks
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Graff, Michael Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2015 London : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415476096
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Englisch
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