1 Commodity Market Integration, 1500–2000

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. I The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Market Integration
6. 1 Commodity Market Integration, 1500–2000 13
7. 2 International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets 65
8. 3 Globalization and Capital Markets 121
9. II The Great Divergence, Geography, and Technology
10. 4 Globalization and Convergence 191
11. 5 Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal? 227
12. 6 Technology in the Great Divergence 277
13. 7 Globalization in History 323
14. III Financial Institutions, Regimes, and Crises
15. 8 Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization 373
16. 9 Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Globalization 417
17. 10 Crises in the Global Economy from Tulips to Today 473
18. 11 Monetary and Financial Reform in Two Eras of Globalization 515
19. Globalization in Interdisciplinary Perspective 549
20. Contributors 571
21. Author Index 575
22. Subject Index 583