Friday, February 24, 2012

Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006)

Jeffry A. Frieden.
Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006; reprint 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Book webpage at Jeff Frieden's website.

Jeffry A. Frieden, Harvard University.

Some other books by Jeffry A. Frieden:

Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffry A. Frieden. Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Book webpage at Menzie Chinn's website; Book webpage at Jeff Frieden's website.]

The authors Chinn & Frieden summarize Lost Decades: IMF Videos, 14 October 2011.
The authors' presentation is followed by comments and discussion by Diane Lim Rogers, Gail Cohen, and Simon Johnson.
This video is also posted at Econbrowser, a blog edited by Menzie Chinn.

Jeffry A. Frieden, David A. Lake, J. Lawrence Broz. International Political Economy: Perspectives on Global Power and Wealth, fifth edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Other Links:

Long Depression, Wikipedia (last quarter of the Nineteenth Century; the first era of Globalization was a period of falling prices which was associated with persistent economic depression).

Panic of 1873, Wikipedia (initiated the Long Depression of the Nineteenth Century).

Gold standard, Wikipedia (monetary system that notably dictated the terms of international trade during the period 1870-1914).

Great Depression, Wikipedia (1930s).

Autarky, Wikipedia (as the first era of Globalization ended many national economies turned inward).

Import substitution industrialization, Wikipedia (pursued by some countries as a path to economic development as an alternative to a global division of labor based on international trade, but in all cases has resulted in poor long-term economic outcomes).

Bretton Woods system, Wikipedia (the monetary system that ordered the terms of international trade following World War II until the early 1970s).

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Wikipedia (ordered the terms of international trade following World War II until 1993).

World Trade Organization, Wikipedia (has ordered the terms of international trade since 1995).

International trade, Wikipedia.

Globalization, Wikipedia.

Free trade, Wikipedia.

Comparative advantage, Wikipedia.

Neoliberalism, Wikipedia.

Washington Consensus, Wikipedia.