The redistribution of alien species across the globe accelerated with the start of European
colonialism. European powers were responsible for the deliberate and accidental …

The article surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary
challenges to globalization: the literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth …

This chapter outlines the main advances in the literature on market integration in the last 5–
10 years. After a short review of the definition of market integration and of the main statistical …

This chapter gives a broad overview of the literature on the cliometrics of international trade
and market integration. We start by motivating this by looking at the lessons from economic …

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world
historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' …

While human capital has gained prominence in new vintages of growth theory, economists
have struggled to find the positive externalities of mass education in developing economies …

The speed of ships is a crucial variable in shipping productivity. Despite the dominance of
the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Eurasian trade in the early modern era, its ships …

This paper is a first attempt to measure the effects of international market integration on
world trade and welfare in the``long nineteenth century”. We run a multi-market partial …

Agriculture has played a central role in Africa's long‐term economic development. Previous
research has argued that the low productivity of African economies has posed significant …

In recent decades, economic historians have debated when globalization began. Based
upon a narrow definition of globalization focused on price convergence, providing evidence …