000			03356cam a2200301 i 4500
999			_c507126 _d507126
001			19062765
005			20190627114837.0
008			160411t20162016maua b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2016017378
020			_a9780674660489 (alk. paper)
040			_aMH/DLC _beng _cMH _erda _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aHF1365 _b.B35 2016
082	0	0	_aT39 B193
100	1		_aBaldwin, Richard E., _eauthor. _9751
245	1	4	_aThe great convergence : _binformation technology and the new globalization / _cRichard Baldwin.
260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2016
300			_a329 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
505	0		_aPart I. The long history of globalization in short. -- Humanizing the globe and the first bundling -- Steam and globalization's first unbundling -- ICT and globalization's second unbundling -- Part II. Extending the globalization narrative -- A three-cascading-constraints view of globalization -- What's really new? -- Part III. Understanding globalization's changes -- Quintessential globalization economics -- Accounting for globalization's changed impact -- Part IV. Why it matters -- Rethinking G7 globalization policies -- Rethinking development policy -- Looking ahead -- Future globalization.
520			_aBetween 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam power and international peace lowered the costs of moving goods across borders. This triggered a self-fueling cycle of industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today's rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored jobs. The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid industrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization of developed nations, and a commodity super-cycle that is only now petering out. The result is today's Great Convergence. Because globalization is now driven by fast-paced technological change and the fragmentation of production, its impact is more sudden, more selective, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable. As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.--
650		0	_aGlobalization _xEconomic aspects. _9752
650		0	_aIncome distribution. _9753
650		0	_aEconomic geography. _9754
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xEconomic aspects. _9755
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg