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Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century Kindle Edition

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"Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book Review


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.
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"This is an excellent, readable history of globalization with important lessons for our society." -- Booklist

"Broad and ambitious in its sweep.... One lesson with enormous contemporary resonance emerges: globalization is neither inevitable nor irreversible. Governments can choose to retreat into isolation and have often done so." -- Alan Beattie - FTmagazine

"An economic history of the twentieth century that makes the whole thing come alive." -- David Warsh - economicprinciples.com

"Frieden has a wonderful way of weaving together politics and economics, past and present in an accessible narrative that is...even-handed and objective." -- Washington Post

"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of globalization from 1870 to the present." -- John Bruton - Irish Independent

About the Author

Jeffry A. Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. A specialist on the politics of international financial relations, he is also coauthor, with Menzie Chinn, of Lost Decades, a history of the 2008 financial crisis.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0735CTPQY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (17 April 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2507 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 571 pages
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Jeffry A. Frieden

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Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the author of "Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy" (2015), and (with Menzie Chinn) of "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery" (2011). Frieden is also the author of "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century" (2006; updated second edition 2020), of "Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance" (1987), of "Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965‑1985" (1991), and is the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. His articles on the politics of international economic issues have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and general-interest publications. For more information you can visit http://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden/

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長年、キンドル化要求を続けてきたけれど、ようやく。
経済学的視点を踏まえながら、グローバルな資本主義の政治経済史を辿るという名著。大学の経済史の講義というとかび臭い感じがするが、これを使えば、かなり生き生きとした資本主義史講義ができるはず。翻訳して、大学でつかったらどうだろう。
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David A. Shirk
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful prequel on the current economic crisis
Reviewed in the United States on 23 October 2012
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I used this book for my Fall 2012 undergraduate course on International Political Economy (IPE), and found it to be both informative and enjoyable for my students. The author narrates the history of the global economic system from the early 19th century rise of free market capitalism to neo-liberal era of the 1990s and early 2000s. The book is highly readable, with an excellent balance of depth and breadth. Frieden provides clear, accessible discussion of many key concepts in IPE: specialization, gains from trade, Heckscher-Ohlin theory, the Stopler-Samuelson theorem, communism, social democracy, import substitution industrialization, export-oriented industrialization, etc. While the book focuses centrally on the two hegemonic powers of the last two centuries, the United Kingdom and the United States, the author also explores in detail the experiences of other countries at key points in time: Russia under the Bolsheviks, Germany from Weimar to the Third Reich, post-war Swedish social democracy, Mexico during the peso crisis, Thailand during the baht crisis, etc. In some cases, Frieden does a great job of bringing to life key characters in the narrative (e.g., the Rothschilds, Keynes, Soros). What is especially useful about the book is they way that it illustrates the economic theories and political coalitions that have arisen to support or oppose such policies as free trade and the gold standard, as well as its detailed analysis of the anatomy of financial bubbles and crises over the last two centuries. The author keenly observes that global integration is prone to crisis, has not been universally positive, and may be difficult to sustain without addressing its excesses and contradictions. In this sense, the book is an excellent prequel to any discussion of the current global economic crisis. For the most part, my undergraduate students seemed to enjoy the book, though it is important to note that the material can be dense and requires ample discussion in class to make sure that they get the concepts.
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William Essel
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but hard to read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2012
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Got this for my International Relations course. very good and informative but definitely a hard read. It is well written and covers all the salient topics on the Global Economy.
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