Trade and development report, 2008: report by the secretariat of the United Nations conference on trade and development / United Nations

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Academic Foundation: 2008. New Delhi:Description: xxvi, 201 pISBN:

9788171887330

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DDC classification:

382.05 TRA

Contents:

1 Sumer-- 2 The Straits of Trade-- 3 Camels, Perfumes, and Prophets-- 4 The Baghdad-Canton Express-- 5 The Taste of Trade and the Captives of Trade-- 6 The Disease of Trade-- 7 Da Gama's Urge-- 8 A World Encompassed-- 9 The Coming of Corporations-- 10 Transplants-- 11 The Triumph and Tragedy of Free Trade-- 12 What Henry Bessemer Wrought-- 13 Collapse-- 14 The Battle of Seattle; Acknowledgments; Notes;

Summary: A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over globalization, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Throughout, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet's agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress.

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1 Sumer--
2 The Straits of Trade--
3 Camels, Perfumes, and Prophets--
4 The Baghdad-Canton Express--
5 The Taste of Trade and the Captives of Trade--
6 The Disease of Trade--
7 Da Gama's Urge--
8 A World Encompassed--
9 The Coming of Corporations--
10 Transplants--
11 The Triumph and Tragedy of Free Trade--
12 What Henry Bessemer Wrought--
13 Collapse--
14 The Battle of Seattle; Acknowledgments; Notes;

A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over globalization, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Throughout, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet's agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress.

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