Full name: Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

Author: Jeffry A. Frieden Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Economics, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393329810 039332981X

In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening. Similar books: The Birth of Plenty by William J. Bernstein The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi Capitalism and the Historians by F. A. Hayek The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood One World Ready or Not by William Greider The Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon Hall of Mirrors by Barry Eichengreen The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Muller False Economy by Alan Beattie The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes