Global capitalism : its fall and rise in the twentieth century, and its stumbles in the twenty-first / Jeffry A. Frieden.

By:

Frieden, Jeffry A

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020Description: xv, 582 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780393358254

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DDC classification:

337.0904 23

Contents:

Prologue: Into the twentieth century -- I. Last best years of the golden age, 1896-1914 -- 1. Global capitalism triumphant -- 2. Defenders of the global economy -- 3. Success stories of the golden age -- 4. Failures of development -- 5. Problems of the global economy -- II. Things fall apart, 1914-1939 -- 6. "All that is solid melts into air..." -- 7. The world of tomorrow -- 8. The established order collapses -- 9. The turn to Autarky -- 10. Building a social democracy -- III. Together again, 1939-1973. 11. Reconstruction east and west -- 12. The Bretton Woods system in action -- 13. Decolonization and development -- 14. Socialism in many countries -- 15. The end of Bretton Woods -- IV: Globalization, 1973-2000 -- 16. Crisis and change -- 17. Globalizers victorious -- 18. Countries catch up -- 19. Countries fall behind -- 20. Global capitalism troubled -- 21. And fall again?

Summary: An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from decades of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Into the twentieth century --
I. Last best years of the golden age, 1896-1914 --
1. Global capitalism triumphant --
2. Defenders of the global economy --
3. Success stories of the golden age --
4. Failures of development --
5. Problems of the global economy --
II. Things fall apart, 1914-1939 --
6. "All that is solid melts into air..." --
7. The world of tomorrow --
8. The established order collapses --
9. The turn to Autarky --
10. Building a social democracy --
III. Together again, 1939-1973.
11. Reconstruction east and west --
12. The Bretton Woods system in action --
13. Decolonization and development --
14. Socialism in many countries --
15. The end of Bretton Woods --
IV: Globalization, 1973-2000 --
16. Crisis and change --
17. Globalizers victorious --
18. Countries catch up --
19. Countries fall behind --
20. Global capitalism troubled --
21. And fall again?

An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from decades of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.

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