The Global Economy: A Concise History

ISBN-13: 9780367265076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 334 str.

Franco Amatori; Andrea Colli

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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