"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 gr…
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United Sta…
Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book takes a different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were responsible both for China’s…
This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It sho…
"Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distingui…
When and how did Japanese industrialization begin? Why did industrialization begin much earlier in Japan than in other non-Western nations? What does the Japanese case add to our understanding of modern economic growth generally? This book address these questions by focusing sha…
This timely collection of 15 essays by leading economists explores how rapid economic growth in China and elsewhere in East Asia is reshaping the world economy.
"The global economy can no longer be relied upon to provide the necessities of life. Even in wealthy countries, the vagaries of free trade and the unimpeded movement of capital pose a threat not just to job security but to food and energy supplies as well." "Short Circuit propos…
"Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Exp…
The first revolution in the Chinese countryside was the land reform implemented in the 'liberated areas' and extended throughout China after the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This was important in the consolidation of the Communist Party's political pow…
In this book, a top Republican and Democratic economist explain why Obama's economic policies are failing!and offer a commonsense blueprint for re-igniting long-term growth and prosperity for all Americans. They show how to overhaul the tax system, increase business investment, …