作者:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
作者:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
作者:Complutense University of Madrid; Complutense University of Madrid; CUNEF Universidad
摘要:Globalization, if defined as the integration of international commodity markets, started in the eighteenth century and progressed gradually and with some setbacks into the nineteenth century, instead of suddenly appearing at some point after the 1820s. We use grain prices in Europe and the Americas to determine the extent and dynamics of market integration throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An innovative methodology, with special attention being paid to changes in residual dis...
作者:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:The lessons of history were widely invoked in 2008/09 as analysts and policymakers sought to make sense of the global financial crisis. Specifically, analogies with the early stages of the Great Depression of the 1930s were widely drawn. Building on work in cognitive science and literature on foreign policy making, this article seeks to account for the influence of this particular historical analogy and asks how it shaped both perceptions and the economic policy response. It asks how historica...
作者:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park