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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824849603321

Autore

Williamson Jeffrey G. <1935->

Titolo

Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950 / / Jeffrey G. Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2006

ISBN

0-262-25031-4

0-262-28632-7

1-282-09695-8

9786612096952

1-4237-7453-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 189 p

Collana

Ohlin lectures ; ; 10

Classificazione

83.40

Disciplina

337/.09172/409041

Soggetti

Industrialization - History - 20th century

Globalization - History - 20th century

Economic history - 20th century

Developing countries Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Laws of Motion: Secular Boom and Bust in the Premodern Periphery -- I Impact on Prices, Trade, and Distribution -- 2 Core Growth and World Transport Revolutions -- 3 World Market Integration and the Periphery Terms of Trade -- 4 Relative Factor Price Convergence, Absolute Factor Price Divergence, and Income Distribution -- II Impact on Economic Development and Policy -- 5 The Dark Side: Deindustrialization and Underdevelopment -- 6 Terms-of-Trade Impact: Secular Trend and Volatility -- 7 Bucking the Global Tide with High Tariffs -- 8 Coda: Some Guarded Lessons from History -- Notes -- References -- List of Abbreviations -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined with a worldwide revolution



in transportation, created an antiglobal backlash in the periphery, the poorer countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America."--Jacket.