Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want …
"In Globalization and the Poor Periphery before 1950 Jeffrey Williamson examines globalization through the lens of both the economist and the historian, analyzing its economic impact on industrially lagging poor countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Williamson argues that industrialization in the core countries of northwest Europe and their overseas settlements, combined wi…
Pendekatan konservasi yang inovatif dan berorientasi pada hasil, Disusun oleh pelopor restorasi sungai dan arsitek konservasi terukur, Strategi inovatif diambil dari perusahaan-perusahaan paling efisien, paham teknologi, dan sukses di dunia
Difokuskan pada kebutuhan khusus pengawas distrik sekolah yang jumlah siswanya kurang dari sepuluh ribu, bab-bab tersebut mengajarkan siswa kerangka kerja kritis untuk memikirkan dan menangani masalah serta praktik yang dihadapi pengawas sekolah sehari-hari, sehingga memungkinkan mereka membentuk pemahaman terperinci dan praktis tentang administrasi dan kepemimpinan
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This ap…
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence. In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an “academic area” into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee d…