In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company’s intercontinental trade and its effects

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,0, Indiana University (Department of Political Science),

Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

In stark contrast to popular narratives, The Great Divergence Reconsidered shows that Europe's rise to an undisputed world economic leader was not the effect of

How the rise of globalization over the past two centuries helps explain the income gap between rich and poor countries today. Today's wide economic gap between