International Economic Relations since 1945

This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the Covid-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads that tie national economies together: flows of goods, of people and of finance.

Autorentext

Catherine R. Schenk FRHS, FRSA is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. She has held academic positions in New Zealand, London and Glasgow and visiting positions in China, Hong Kong, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements.

Inhalt

1. Introduction and Overview 2. Rebuilding the international economic system 1945-50 3. Years of Growth 1950-70 4. Years of Crisis 1970-1985 5. The Start of the Second Globalization 6. The Acceleration of globalisation and renewed crises 7. Lessons not learned: the 2000s 8. Reconstructing international economic relations: 2010-2020