Inequality and schooling responses to globalization forces: lessons from history [PDF]
Given the intensity of the current debate about the impact of globalization on brain drain in the Third World and inequality in the First World, it might be useful to look at these forces during the first global century, ending in 1914.
Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Panama Canal Twenty-fifth anniversary 1914 - Aug. 15 -1939 [PDF]
, 1928 Leonard Carpenter Panama Canal Collection. Photographs: Views of Panama and the Canal. [Box 1] from the Special Collections & Area Studies Department, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Hardy, Rufus
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Atlantic versus Pacific Agreement in Agri-food Sectors: Does the Winner Take it All? [PDF]
, 2015 Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. This paper provides an overview of current trade ows and trade barriers.Then,
Disdier, Anne-Célia +2 more
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The Myth of Early Globalisation: The Atlantic Economy, 1500-1800
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2008 In recent historiography, it has been argued that the expansion of Europe between 1500 and 1800 created a “system” in the Atlantic by which the economies of Europe, West Africa and the New World were closely interconnected by trade and migration. However,
Pieter Emmer
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Pushing Wheat: Why Supply Mattered for the American Grain Invasion of Britain in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]
This paper documents the evolution of variables central to understanding the creation of an Atlantic Economy in wheat between the US and the UK in the nineteenth century. The cointegrated VAR model is then applied to the period 1838-1913 in order to find
Paul Sharp
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A Caribbean Affair: The Liberalisation of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean, 1784-1791
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2019 The liberalisation of the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean ended with a series of political measures which aimed to revitalise the practice of slavery in the region. After granting a series of monopoly contracts (asientos) to merchant houses based in
José Luis Belmonte Postigo
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Slavery, the Slave Trade and the Churches
, 2015 The British did not initiate, but they came to dominate the Atlantic slave trade. Few expressed moral or ethical doubts about slavery. The Anglican church, was directly involved in slavery.
Walvin, James
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery [PDF]
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by ...
Arcangelo Dimico, Graziella Bertocchi
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Le moment Atlantique de la dynastie des Winthrop au XVIIe siècle
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2016 Using the case of the Winthrop dynasty, this essay explores the successive stages of an Anglo-American family’s expansion in an Atlantic world that was still nascent in the mid-17th century. This process is here referred to as atlanticization.
Lauric Henneton
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The Interaction Between FDI and Infrastructure Capital in The Development Process [PDF]
, 2014 This paper focuses on the possible interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the host country’s infrastructure base. Its central hypothesis is that the effect of FDI on per capita real income depends, at least in part, on the size of the ...
Greenwold, David N. +2 more
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