States versus markets
Subtitle: the emergence of a global economy
By: Herman M. Schwartz
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230521285
Description: "States versus Markets shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon but a recurrent process whereby markets have, since the sixteenth century, periodically redistributed economic activity. This revised and updated new edition takes account of the new rise of Asia and the global financial crisis originating in the US housing finance system"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * PART 1: STATES, AGRICULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION * The Rise of the Modern State: From Street Gangs to Mafias * States, Markets, and the Origins of International Inequality * Economic and Hegemonic Cycles * The Industrial Revolution and Late Development; title: * Agricultural Exporters and the Search for Labor * Agriculture-Led Growth and Crisis in the Periphery: Ricardian Success, Ricardian Failure * The Collapse of the Nineteenth-Century Economy: The Erosion of Hegemony? * PART II: THE REEMERGENCE OF GLOBALIZATION *; title: The Depression, U.S. Domestic Politics, and the Foundation of the Post-World War II System *; title: International Money, Capital Flows, and Domestic Politics * Transnational Firms: A War of All against All * Industrialization in the Old Agricultural Periphery: The Rise of the Newly Industrialized Countries * Trade, Protection, and Renewed Globalization * US Hegemony: Declining from Below?; title: * US Hegemony: Reviving or Declining from the Top Down Introduction * PART 1: STATES, AGRICULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION * The Rise of the Modern State: From Street Gangs to Mafias * States, Markets, and the Origins of International Inequality * Economic and Hegemonic Cycles * The Industrial Revolution and Late Development; title: * Agricultural Exporters and the Search for Labor * Agriculture-Led Growth and Crisis in the Periphery: Ricardian Success, Ricardian Failure * The Collapse of the Nineteenth-Century Economy: The Erosion of Hegemony? * PART II: THE REEMERGENCE OF GLOBALIZATION *; title: The Depression, U.S. Domestic Politics, and the Foundation of the Post-World War II System *; title: International Money, Capital Flows, and Domestic Politics * Transnational Firms: A War of All against All * Industrialization in the Old Agricultural Periphery: The Rise of the Newly Industrialized Countries * Trade, Protection, and Renewed Globalization * US Hegemony: Declining from Below?; title: * US Hegemony: Reviving or Declining from the Top Down.