Globalization and History - The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy

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.

About the author

Kevin H. O'Rourke is Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is co-author (with Jeffrey Williamson) of Globalization and History. Jeffrey G. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is the coauthor (with Kevin O'Rourke) of Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy (MIT Press, 1999) and (with Timothy J. Hatton) Global Migration and the World Economy (MIT Press, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Kevin O'Rourke, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson
• Publisher: GB Gardners Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780262150491
• ISBN: 978-0-262-15049-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Weight: 708 g
• Illustrations: w. num. graphs.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics