December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
41h 52m
English
Christopher M. Meissner, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis and NBER, Davis, CA 95616, USA
What is the connection between different forms of globalization, economic growth, and welfare? International trade, cross-border capital flows, and labor movements are three areas in which economic historians have focused their research. I critically summarize various measures of international integration in each of these spheres. I then move on to discuss and evaluate the ongoing and active debate about whether globalization is significantly associated with growth in the past. I pay particular attention to the role of globalization in the Great Divergence, ...
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