Globalization and history : the evolution of anineteenth-century Atlantic economy

By Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2000

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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.

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• Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century (2000, background): “Nonetheless, a constant theme of O'Rourke and Williamson (1999) is that late 20th century economists”