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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828543403321

Autore

O'Rourke Kevin H

Titolo

Globalization and history : the evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy / / Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : MIT Press, c1999

ISBN

1-282-09985-X

9786612099854

0-262-28086-8

0-585-07774-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsonJeffrey G. <1935->

Disciplina

337.11821

Soggetti

Capital movements - North Atlantic Region - History

Free trade - North Atlantic Region - History

North Atlantic Region Economic integration History

North Atlantic Region Emigration and immigration History

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 -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.