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Commodity frontiers: a view from economic history
The history of frontiers is a fascinating topic for research, especially interdisciplinary research. We stress the need to engage with existing work on the topic by economists and economic historians, but we also highlight the need to engage with such topics as the history of inter-state conflict and violence, technological change, and the role of multiple interest groups in determining policy.
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القوة والوفرة : التجارة والحرب والاقتصاد العالمي في الألفية الثانية
هذا الكتاب الجديد (القوة والوفرة) يؤرخ في الواقع لفترة ألف عام من تاريخ الاقتصاد ما بين عام 1000 وحتى اليوم وقد حظي هذا الكتاب بترحيب كبير من قبل النقاد والمختصين، بل واعتبره العديدون بمثابة (مرجع) منذ غداة صدوره، ذلك أن المؤلفين يحاولان أن يشرحا الأسباب العميقة لكون أن بعض البلدان عرفت الثروة والغنى بينما ظلت بلدان أخرى فقيرة خلال الألفية الماضية ويتم التأكيد في الشروحات المقدمة على أن ازدهار التجارة أدى آليا إلى زيادة مداخيل البلدان والإمبراطوريات وخلق أشكال من التواصل بين السكان المعنيين ودمجهم في إطار تدفقات التبادل، هذا كله في سياق حركة عامة كانت حاسمة في تحديد (المنتصرين) و(المهزومين)، (الرابحين) و(الخاسرين)
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Kindleberger: Economics and History
Charlie Kindleberger was a beloved teacher and mentor to all his generations of students. The author will try to give a sense of Kindleberger's unique contribution to the discipline, which he believes was the restoration of history as an essential dimension of the economic analysis of international trade, business cycles, financial panics, economic development, or indeed, of almost any economic phenomenon whatsoever. Kindleberger's mind was never compartmentalized between an economic and an historical part. The two were always fused together no matter was the subject he was considering. For example, formal trade theorists usually treat transport costs as a mere nuisance, to be handled if strictly necessary by the \"melting iceberg\" assumption. Kindleberger, however, uses the existence of transport costs, and changes in their levels and structure, to note how they affect the economic horizons of producers and consumers and from this, he deduces the striking proposition that trade can profitably be viewed as a \"learning process.\" Kindleberger noted the great historical significance of transport innovations and traced some of their consequences.
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International Trade and Human Capital: A Simple General Equilibrium Model
The paper incorporates the formation of human capital into the two-factor, two-good model of international trade. Workers can choose between being unskilled and earning the corresponding wage or obtaining an education that enables them to earn a higher wage. The wages of skilled and unskilled labor and the direct and indirect costs of education are all determined endogenously, along with the terms of trade and the pattern of comparative advantage. The implications of the model are consistent with the extensive empirical research on the role of human capital in explaining patterns of comparative advantage.
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Asia and the World Economy in Historical Perspective
This chapter studies the political and economic evolution of trade and international relations of the counties and regions of Asia, both between themselves and the rest of the world, over the past millennium, paying particular attention to the geographic and cultural background; the underlying demographic and economic mechanism of the classical Malthus-Ricardo model; the Pax Mongolica and overland trade along the Silk Roads during the Middle Ages; the European intrusion at the turn of the fifteenth century and the impact of the discovery of the New World; the spread of European imperialism and the rise of nationalism and the achievement of independence. A final section discusses the comparative evolution of Europe and Asia and the question of why the Industrial Revolution did not first occur in Asia.
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Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries, and Frontiers
Economic growth and decline have been a feature of human society ever since the species first learned to use fire and invented stone tools. Economic statistics are a relatively recent invention, but the work of historians, archeologists, and demographers has provided an extensive charting of the relative dimensions of population, growth, urbanization, agricultural settlement, immigration, and technical change. In the light of all this evidence going back so far and extending over so much of the globe, it is surely extremely parochial, in both space and time, to confine the study of convergence to the last few decades in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. What is missing in the models of convergence in growth theory is interdependence: the links of trade, factor mobility, and technological diffusion that connect diverse economic indicators.
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