The great convergence : information technology and the new globalization /

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldwin, Richard E. (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Income distribution.
Economic geography.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The long history of globalization in short.
  • Humanizing the globe and the first bundling
  • Steam and globalization's first unbundling
  • ICT and globalization's second unbundling
  • Part II. Extending the globalization narrative
  • A three-cascading-constraints view of globalization
  • What's really new?
  • Part III. Understanding globalization's changes
  • Quintessential globalization economics
  • Accounting for globalization's changed impact
  • Part IV. Why it matters
  • Rethinking G7 globalization policies
  • Rethinking development policy
  • Looking ahead
  • Future globalization.

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