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The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides
an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism
across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a
wide geographical coverage and strong comparative outlook, a team
of leading scholars explore the global consequences that capitalism
has had for industry, agriculture, and trade, along with the
reactions by governments, firms, and markets. The authors consider
how World War I halted the initial spread of capitalism, but global
capitalism arose again by the close of the twentieth century. They
explore how the responses of labor movements, compounded by the
reactions by political regimes, whether defensive or proactive, led
to diverse military and welfare consequences. Beneficial results
eventually emerged, but the rise and spread of capitalism has not
been easy or smooth. This definitive volume will have widespread
appeal amongst historians, economists, and political scientists.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with
changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy
in relation to economic development. It includes a survey of
theories of sectoral balance and studies of structural
transformation in the Kuznets tradition but with richer
economometric models and data on more than 100 countries over
several decades. There are in-depth country analyses of India,
Korea and Nigeria and for Eastern Europe, the GDR and Hungary. In
the last part of the volume the link between agriculture and
industry is studied in terms of the importance of rural non-farm
activities, the effectiveness of balanced growth and of an
agriculture-led development strategy. A wide range of data is
examined with one chapter focusing particularly on Japan. Jeffrey
Williamson has also written "Modelling Growth Economics in
Equilibrium and Disequilibrium" with A.Kelley and "Did British
Capitalism Breed Inequality". Amongst his other publications,
Vadiraj Panchamukhi has written "Trade Policies in India: A Case
Study of Karnataka, Capital Formation and Output in the Third
World" and "Planning, Development and World Economic Order".
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Two of the world's leading economists, Philippe Aghion (a theorist) and Jeffrey Williamson (an economic historian), jointly question the conventional wisdom on inequality and growth, and address its inability to explain recent economic experience. Aghion assesses the effects of inequality on growth, and asks whether inequality matters: is excessive inequality bad for growth, and is it possible to reconcile aggregate findings with microeconomic theories of incentives? Jeffrey Williamson then discusses the Kuznets hypothesis, and focuses on the causes of wage and income inequality in developed economies.
Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth
during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used
by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic
style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and
provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development
economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged
failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural
emigrants; the persistent influx of newcomers, which makes it
difficult for municipal planners to improve the quality of social
overhead; the crowding of migrants into densely packed urban slums
with few, if any, social services; and rising density and city size
which augment pollution while lowering the quality of the urban
environment.
Contents: Part I. Introduction 1. Globalizaton challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean. Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson Part II. Long Run Growth: A Comparative Assessment 2. How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia. Jaime Reis 3. Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean 1500-1940. Jeffrey G. Williamson 4. European economic development: The core and the Southern periphery 1870-1910 James Foreman-Peck and Pedro Lains Part III. Long Run Growth: Country Studies 5. Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia 1880-1910 Ahmed Akarli 6. The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared 1830-1860. Joan Ramon Roses Part IV. Trade, Transport and Domestic Production in the Century Before WWII 7. Specialization in the international market for olive oil before WWII. Ramon Ramon-Munoz 8. International competition and the developoment of the dried fruit industry 1880-1930. Jose Morilla-Critz, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode 9. International shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime center 1870-1910. Gelina Harlaftis and Vassilis Kardasis Part V. Pre-1914 Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth 10. Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in late 19th century. Giovanni Federico and Kevin H. O'Rourke 11. What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before WWII? A comparison with Italy. Blanca Sanchez-Alonso Part VI: Interwar Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth 12. Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience. Sevket Pamuk 13. Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism. Tarik Yousef Part VII Twentieth Century Palestine 14. Economic growth and external trade in mandatory Palestine: a special Mediterranean case. Jacob Metzer
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a
comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its
earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient
Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised
Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical
coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of
authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman and Asian
civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the
Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of
modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the
various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the
eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states
in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how
British mercantilism led to European imitations and American
successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.
Between 1850 and 1914 about 55 million Europeans migrated to the New World including North and South America, and Australia. This movement marked a profound shift in global population and economic activity. The authors describe this phenomenon and analyse the effects that underlie it.
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic
evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the
uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While
other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth,
Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income--and
the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic
experience. America has been exceptional in its rising inequality
after an egalitarian start, but not in its long-run growth. America
had already achieved world income leadership by 1700, not just in
the twentieth century as is commonly thought. Long before
independence, American colonists enjoyed higher living standards
than Britain--and America's income advantage today is no greater
than it was three hundred years ago. But that advantage was lost
during the Revolution, lost again during the Civil War, and lost a
third time during the Great Depression, though it was regained
after each crisis. In addition, Lindert and Williamson show how
income inequality among Americans rose steeply in two great
waves--from 1774 to 1860 and from the 1970s to today--rising more
than in any other wealthy nation in the world. Unequal Gains also
demonstrates how the widening income gaps have always touched every
social group, from the richest to the poorest. The book sheds
critical light on the forces that shaped American income history,
and situates that history in a broad global context. Economic
writing at its most stimulating, Unequal Gains provides a vitally
needed perspective on who has benefited most from American growth,
and why.
In this study, Jeffrey G. Williamson examines the political economy
of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global
centuries. The first, between 1820 and World War I, was a proglobal
environment, characterized by booming trade, labor, and capital
markets. It was followed by an antiglobal and autarchic retreat
between 1914 and 1950. Williamson finds that the second global
century has moved to reclaim world integration in trade and capital
markets, but immigration policy in high-wage countries has not
tried to reclaim an open stance.
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic
evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the
uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While
other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth,
Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income--and
the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic
experience. America has been exceptional in its rising inequality
after an egalitarian start, but not in its long-run growth. America
had already achieved world income leadership by 1700, not just in
the twentieth century as is commonly thought. Long before
independence, American colonists enjoyed higher living standards
than Britain--and America's income advantage today is no greater
than it was three hundred years ago. But that advantage was lost
during the Revolution, lost again during the Civil War, and lost a
third time during the Great Depression, though it was regained
after each crisis. In addition, Lindert and Williamson show how
income inequality among Americans rose steeply in two great
waves--from 1774 to 1860 and from the 1970s to today--rising more
than in any other wealthy nation in the world. Unequal Gains also
demonstrates how the widening income gaps have always touched every
social group, from the richest to the poorest. The book sheds
critical light on the forces that shaped American income history,
and situates that history in a broad global context. Economic
writing at its most stimulating, Unequal Gains provides a vitally
needed perspective on who has benefited most from American growth,
and why.
How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps
explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of
the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new.
Fifty years ago, the world economic order-two hundred years in the
making-was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita
income between rich and poor countries and by the fact that poor
countries exported commodities (agricultural or mineral products)
while rich countries exported manufactured products. In Trade and
Poverty, leading economic historian Jeffrey G. Williamson traces
the great divergence between the third world and the West to this
nexus of trade, commodity specialization, and poverty. Analyzing
the role of specialization, de-industrialization, and commodity
price volatility with econometrics and case studies of India,
Ottoman Turkey, and Mexico, Williamson demonstrates why the close
correlation between trade and poverty emerged. Globalization and
the great divergence were causally related, and thus the rise of
globalization over the past two centuries helps account for the
income gap between rich and poor countries today.
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a
comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its
earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient
Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised
Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical
coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of
authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian
civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the
Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of
modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the
various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the
eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states
in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how
British mercantilism led to European imitations and American
successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.
Late Nineteenth-Century American Development is an economist's
attempt to interpret a critical period of US history, from Civil
War to World War I. The questions raised have always been at the
heart of American historiography. What accounts for the retardation
up to the turn of the century? How did capital markets operate and
what was their influence on the pace and pattern of our growth?
What determined farm performance and what impact did that
performance have on the economy as a whole? Yet while the questions
raised in this book are familiar, the methods are not. This book
blends traditional historical analysis with general equilibrium
theory, modern macroeconomics and simulation analysis. The result
is a provocative book of remarkable scope which offers a fresh
interpretation of late nineteenth-century American growth.
Coping With City Growth assesses British performance with city growth during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and provocative new account of a very old problem. The debate over Third World city growth is hardly new, and can be found in the British Parliamentary Papers as early as the 1830s, in treatises by political economists, and in the British Press. This book should change the way urban history is written in the future and influence the way we think about contemporary Third World cities.
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.
Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In
Gobalization 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, which anticipated the
experience of the last fifty years. The authors estimate the extent
of globalization and its impact on the participating countries, and
discuss the political reactions that it provoked. 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. The book brings together research conducted
by the authors over the past decade-work that has profoundly
influenced how economic history is now written and that has found
audiences in economics and history, as well as in the popular
press.
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides
an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism
across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a
wide geographical coverage and strong comparative outlook, a team
of leading scholars explore the global consequences that capitalism
has had for industry, agriculture, and trade, along with the
reactions by governments, firms, and markets. The authors consider
how World War I halted the initial spread of capitalism, but global
capitalism arose again by the close of the twentieth century. They
explore how the responses of labor movements, compounded by the
reactions by political regimes, whether defensive or proactive, led
to diverse military and welfare consequences. Beneficial results
eventually emerged, but the rise and spread of capitalism has not
been easy or smooth. This definitive volume will have widespread
appeal amongst historians, economists, and political scientists.
Two of the world's leading economists, Philippe Aghion (a theorist) and Jeffrey Williamson (an economic historian), jointly question the conventional wisdom on inequality and growth, and address its inability to explain recent economic experience. Aghion assesses the effects of inequality on growth, and asks whether inequality matters: is excessive inequality bad for growth, and is it possible to reconcile aggregate findings with microeconomic theories of incentives? Jeffrey Williamson then discusses the Kuznets hypothesis, and focuses on the causes of wage and income inequality in developed economies.
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