New features to this edition include: a prologue explaining the initial conditions faced by the world economy in 1820, detailing the beginnings of international trade and the influence of slavery greater coverage of developing countries ...

This text is widely acknowledged to be the best available introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations.

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An introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations. This edition brings the story up to 1990 and includes new data and new references

Published in 1982 this is an introductory study of the international spread of modern industrial technology.

This book traces the history of particular institutions, the factors responsible for their emergence, the social and political circumstances in which they operate, and the momentous changes of the 1980s and 1990s.