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Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2015
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ISBN: 1135010641 0203744446 113501065X Year: 2013 Publisher: Florence : Taylor and Francis,

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Kenwood and Lougheed's classic book has been the benchmark introduction to the development of the global economy for decades. For this fifth edition, Michael Graff has brought the story up to date to include events from the early part of the twenty first century - continued globalization, the emergence of Asia as an economic power and the greater role played by business on the international scene.

Beginning with the industrial revolution, the book charts the long nineteenth century, the impact of colonialism, the fast pace of technology growth and the impact of global wars. New


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Neoclassical international economics: an historical survey
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ISBN: 0333516672 9780333516676 Year: 1990 Publisher: Houndmills Macmillan

UN and Global Political Economy : Trade, Finance, and Development
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ISBN: 0253216869 0253344115 0253004640 9780253004642 9780253344113 9780253216861 Year: 2004 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual contributions to the trade and development debate. Presenting a stirring account of the main UN actors in this debate, The UN and Global Political Economy focuses on the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, and the Economic Commission for Latin America (and the Caribbean). It also looks closely at the effects of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the growing strength of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the 1990s, and the lessons to be drawn from these and other recent developments.

Jealousy of trade : international competition and the nation-state in historical perspective
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ISBN: 0674010388 9780674010383 Year: 2005


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Les nouvelles puissances mondiales : pourquoi les BRIC changent le monde
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ISBN: 9782729864736 2729864733 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris: Ellipses,

The growth of the international economy 1820-2000 : an introductory text
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ISBN: 0415199301 0415199298 0203199359 0203258185 1280325283 1134637950 9780415199292 9780415199308 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; New York : Routlege,

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This text is widely acknowledged to be the best available introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations. Updating the story to the present day, this edition covers the latest developments in international economics. Significant new additions include:* globalization and the world economy* the growth of regional trading blocs* globalization and financial crisis in Asia* transition to the market in post-communist economies Packed with new references and data, The Growth of the Internation

A history of the world economy : international economic relations since 1850
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ISBN: 0745009352 9780745009353 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Prentice Hall


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The decline of sterling : managing the retreat of an international currency, 1945-1992
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ISBN: 110721081X 1282536338 9786612536335 0511678827 051167757X 0511682050 0511684037 0511676492 0511680074 9780511677571 9780511682056 0521876974 9780521876971 9780521876971 1107612993 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The demise of sterling as an international currency was widely predicted after 1945, but the process took thirty years to complete. Why was this demise so prolonged? Traditional explanations emphasize British efforts to prolong sterling's role because it increased the capacity to borrow, enhanced prestige, or supported London as a centre for international finance. This book challenges this view by arguing that sterling's international role was prolonged by the weakness of the international monetary system and by collective global interest in its continuation. Using the archives of Britain's partners in Europe, the USA and the Commonwealth, Catherine Schenk shows how the UK was able to convince other governments that sterling's international role was critical for the stability of the international economy and thereby attract considerable support to manage its retreat. This revised view has important implications for current debates over the future of the US dollar as an international currency.


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Securing the world economy : the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946
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ISBN: 9780199577934 0199577935 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental organization sought to understand and shape the powerful forces that influenced the global economy, and the prospects for peace. It traces how the League was drawn into economics and finance by the exigencies of the slump and hyperinflation after the First World War, when it provided essential financial support to Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Estonia and, thereby, established the founding principles of financial intervention, international oversight, and the twentieth-century notion of international 'development'. But it is the impact of the Great Depression after 1929 that lies at the heart of this history. Patricia Clavin traces how the League of Nations sought to combat economic nationalism and promote economic and monetary co-operation in a variety of, sometimes contradictory, ways. Many of the economists, bureaucrats, and policy-advisors who worked for it played a seminal role in the history of international relations and social science, and their efforts did not end with the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 the League established an economic mission in the United States, where it contributed to the creation of organizations for the post-war world - the United Nations Organization, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization - as well as to plans for European reconstruction and co-operation. It is a history that resonates deeply with challenges that face the Twenty-First Century world. -- Back cover

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