Trade and Poverty
When the Third World Fell Behind
$95.07
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2013
Summary
How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today.
Today’s wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order—two hundred years in the making—was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor countries and by the fact that poor countries exported commo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262518598 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262518597 |
| Author: | Jeffrey G. Williamson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
” Trade and Poverty is undoubtedly an important and authoritativework, one that should take the current discourse on globalization and divergence to a new level.” – Tirthankar Roy , EH.net
Trade and Poverty is undoubtedly an important and authoritative work, one that should take the current discourse on globalization and divergence to a new level.
—EH.netJeffrey G. Williamson
Jeffrey G. Williamson is Laird Bell Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the coauthor (with Kevin O’Rourke) of Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy and (with Timothy J. Hatton) of Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance, both published by the MIT Press.
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