Readings:
Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke, "After Columbus: Explaining Europe's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800," Journal of Economic History 62 (2002): 417-456 http://www.nber.org/papers/w8186
Jan de Vries, "The Limits to Globalization in the Early Modern World," Economic History Review (forthcoming) http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/devries_limits_of_globalization.pdf
W. Arthur Lewis, Evolution of the International Economic Order (Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 1978) http://j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/Lewis_Evolution_A.pdf http://j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/Lewis_Evolution_B.pdf
Jeffry G. Williamson, "Globalization, Convergence, and History" Journal of Economic History 56 (1996):227-306 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199606%2956%3A2%3C277%3AGCAH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
Richard Baldwin and Philippe Martin (1999), “Two Waves of Globalization: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences,” NBER Working Paper no.6904 (January) http://www.nber.org/papers/w6904
Writing Assignment:
The economies settled from northwestern Europe--the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand--were all resource rich. So why did they industrialize early? Why didn't they simply become gigantic Denmarks, shipping agricultural and other resource-based products to the European industral powers in return for manufactures?
Additional and Optional Readings:
*Barry R. Chiswick and Timothy J. Hatton, "International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets," in Michael Bord, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization in Historical Perspective (NBER 2003), pp. 65-120 http://books.google.com/books?id=vDL0u3Rz7C8C&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=chiswick+and+hatton+international+migration+and+the+integration+of+