Съдържание:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Laws of Motion: Secular Boom and Bust in the Premodern Periphery; I Impact on Prices, Trade, and Distribution; 2 Core Growth and World Transport Revolutions; 3 World Market Integration and the Periphery Terms of Trade; 4 Relative Factor Price Convergence, Absolute Factor Price Divergence, and Income Distribution; II Impact on Economic Development and Policy; 5 The Dark Side: Deindustrialization and Underdevelopment; 6 Terms-of-Trade Impact: Secular Trend and Volatility; 7 Bucking the Global Tide with High Tariffs; 8 Coda: Some Guarded Lessons from History; Notes; References