The Global Economy

A Concise History
Herausgeber: Amatori, Franco; Colli, Andrea

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a concise economic history of the global economy over the past thousand years, exploring the main waves of globalization, starting from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, focusing on the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East and the North and the South of the World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780367265083
• ISBN-10: 0367265087
• Artikelnr.: 57384281

Inhaltsangabe

1. The structural characteristics of preindustrial economies 2. The "Great
Divergence" 3. New players, new institutions 4. The Industrial Revolution:
technology and society 5. Why Europe? Why Britain? 6. An unstoppable
process 7. A new world balance 8. The Western model and its limits 9. The
first phase of globalization 10. The Great War: the end of a world 11. The
post-war years: the age of insecurity 12. The crisis of capitalism 13.
State intervention 14. The Second World War: "Creative Destruction" 15.
Prosperity at last 16. Decolonization: lights and (many) shadows 17. From
Keynes to neoliberalism 18. Third World, "Third Worlds" 19. The end of a
great dream 20. Unstable leadership 21. Europe in search of an identity 22.
The globalized world 23. A different kind of crisis? 24. In praise of
history