Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 343 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780262150491
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0262150492
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser.
Content:
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, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Globalization and History -- 2 Convergence in History -- 3 Transport Revolutions and Commodity Market Integration -- 4 Were Heckscher and Ohlin Right? -- 5 The Politics of Free Trade: Repeal of the Corn Laws -- 6 Globalization Backlash: Tariff Responses -- 7 Mass Migrations: Why They Moved -- 8 Mass Migrations: Impact on Labor Markets, Home and Abroad -- 9 Globalization, Relative Factor Price Convergence and Inequality -- 10 Globalization Backlash: Migration Policy Gets Restrictive -- 11 Forging and Breaking Global Capital Markets -- 12 International Capital Flows: Causes and Consequences -- 13 Trade and Factor Flows: Substitutes or Complements? -- 14 Lessons from History -- Appendix: Trade Theory and Computable General Equilibrium Models -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262150491
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780262150491
Language:
English
URL:
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