The End of Globalization : Lessons from the Great Depression / Harold James.
James, Harold, author.
2022
HF1359.J35 2001eb
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Title The End of Globalization : Lessons from the Great Depression / Harold James.
Author James, Harold, author.
ISBN 9780674039087
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039087
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2002
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674039087 doi
Call Number HF1359.J35 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 337
Summary "Globalization" is here. Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events. James examines one of the great historical nightmares of the twentieth century: the collapse of globalism in the Great Depression. Analyzing this collapse in terms of three main components of global economics--capital flows, trade, and international migration--James argues that it was not simply a consequence of the strains of World War I but resulted from the interplay of resentments against all these elements of mobility, as well as from the policies and institutions designed to assuage the threats of globalism. Could it happen again? There are significant parallels today: highly integrated systems are inherently vulnerable to collapse, and world financial markets are vulnerable and unstable. While James does not foresee another Great Depression, his book provides a cautionary tale in which institutions meant to save the world from the consequences of globalization--think WTO and IMF, in our own time--ended by destroying both prosperity and peace.
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Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
Tables and Figures
1. Introduction: The End of Globalization and the Problem of the Depression
2. Monetary Policy and Banking Instability
3. Tariffs, Trade Policy, and the Collapse of International Trade
4. The Reaction against International Migration
5. The Age of Nationalism versus the Age of Capital
6. Conclusion: Can It Happen Again?
Notes
Index

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