edited by Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (ix, 588 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
SERIES
Series Title
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
GENERAL NOTES
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"The papers were presented at a preconference at the NBER in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 16 November 2000, and at a final conference held at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, on 3-6 May 2001"--Preliminary p. ix.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration. This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be meas.