Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration (eBook, ePUB)

Power, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850-1930
Redaktion: Dejung, Christof

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume discuss worldwide economic integration between 1850 and 1930, challenging the popular description of the period after 1918 as one of mere deglobalisation. The authors argue that markets were not only places of material exchange, but also socially structured entities, shaped by the agency of individual actors and by complex structures of political and economic power. Economic transactions were supported by an array of different institutions, ranging from formalised regulations to informal relations of personal trust. They argue that these networks were strong enough to prosper even during and after World War I, in a political climate often hostile to foreign trade. The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration shows that institutionalism altered its shape in the face of circumstances that increasingly challenged international trade. By presenting case studies from various countries, this book offers a fresh perspective on crucial periods of economic globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139611008
• Artikelnr.: 52834243

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Harold James; Introduction: power, institutions, and global markets
- actors, mechanisms, and foundations of worldwide economic integration,
1850-1930 Christof Dejung and Niels P. Petersson; Part I. Legal
Institutions and Private Actors: 1. Legal institutions and the world
economy, 1900-30; 2. Against globalisation: sovereignty, courts, and the
failure to coordinate international bankruptcies (1870-1940) Jérôme Sgard;
3. Credit information, institutions, and international trade: the UK, US,
and Germany, 1850-1930 Rowena Olegario; Part II. Colonial Markets and
Non-Western Actors: 4. The London Stock Exchange and the colonial market: a
study of internationalisation and power Bernard Attard; 5. The London gold
market, 1900-31 Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 6. The boundaries of Western power: the
colonial cotton economy in India and the problem of quality Christof
Dejung; 7. The colonised as global traders: Indian trading networks in the
world economy, 1850-1939 Claude Markovits; 8. The international patent
system and the global flow of technologies: the case of Japan, 1880-1930
Pierre-Yves Donzé; Part III. World War I and the Consequences for Economic
Globalisation: 9. Transnational cooperation in wartime: the international
protection of intellectual property rights during the First World War
Isabella Löhr; 10. The resilience of globalisation during the First World
War: the case of Bunge and Born in Argentina Philip Dehne; 11. Global
economic governance and the private sector: the League of Nations'
experiment in the 1920s Michele d'Alessandro.