The Origins of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415777209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 292 str.

Karl Moore;David Charles Lewis

Opis

Origins of Globalization draws widely on ancient sources and modern economic theory to detail the concept of "known world" globalization, arguing that a mixed economy--similar in many respects to our own--existed in a variety of forms throughout the ancient world. By analyzing the business practices of the ancient world--phenomena such as resource and market seeking behavior, international trade from China, India and Rome, to Africa and even northern and western parts of Europe, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) operating internationally and outsourcing production, multicultural workforces, tariff reduced zones, interregional tax issues, and the management of currency risks--the authors provide readers with a unique historical interpretation of the contemporary globalizing economy and a durable theoretical framework for future historical economic analyses.

A mixed economy has always existed, although in different degrees. Egypt, Minoan Crete and China had state-run palace economies but local markets. China later produced family entrepeneurs; Greece had independent entrepeneurs but some government regulation; Assyria, Babylon, Phoenicia and Carthage had both crown and private traders. Rome had entrepeneurs, big private partnerships and some state firms.

In the course of this startling book, the authors outline what they see as “known world” globalization in the Roman and earlier times, it includes such phenomena as resource and market seeking behaviour, international trade from China to India to Rome, southward into Africa and northward into the northern and western parts of Europe, a large number of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) operating in multiple countries with production and other activities located in those foreign countries, multicultural  workforces, tariff reduced zones, interregional tax issues, currency risks, and other phenomena which are part of the every day world of international business and today’s quite complex globalized economy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Modern International Business Theory and the Ancient World  2. From Temple to Palace: Trade and Enterprise in the Early Bronze Age, 3500-2000BCE  3. The Golden Age of The Temple Economy: Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley: From Early Bronze IV: 2250- 2000BCE   4. The Assyrians and Babylonians Preview the Multinational: The Middle Bronze Age: 2000-1500BCE  5. Maritime Capitalism: Intercontinental Trade and Investment under the Phoenicians: 1500-500BCE  6. Greece: Free-Market Revolution in the Aegean: 825-480BCE  7. Publicans and Patriarchs: The Rise of Roman Family Enterprise: 146BCE-AD14  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Karl Moore is Associate Professor of Management at McGill University, Canada.

David C. Lewis teaches world history at California State University, USA.