Globalisation and Supply Chains

How production fragmented across borders, what it did to prices and wages, and why it is now partially reversing.

12 books · 3 people behind it

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  1. The BoxMarc Levinson, 2006
  2. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global EconomyPietra Rivoli, 2005
  3. The Great ConvergenceRichard Baldwin, 2016

The people behind it 3

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Investors 1

WJ
William J. Bernstein1 book here

Academics 2

JE
Joseph E. Stiglitz1 book here
WJ
William J. Bernstein1 book here

Books 12

Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2002 · The IMF critique from inside the economics establishment.
Marc Levinson · 2006 · The physical precondition for offshoring.
Richard Baldwin · 2016 · The best analytic account of why the second unbundling differs from the first.
Norman Angell · 1909 · The pre-1914 argument that economic interdependence makes war unprofitable
Pietra Rivoli · 2005 · One product traced through every distortion in world trade.
Thomas L. Friedman · 2005 · The definitive popular statement of the high-globalisation consensus.
William J. Bernstein · 2008 · How trade shaped the world, from Mesopotamia to the shipping container
Ha-Joon Chang · 2010 · Heterodox economist's case against free-market assumptions
Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis · 2020 · Imbalances reframed as domestic distribution, not national competition.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber · 1968 · 1968 warning that American corporations would come to dominate Europe
William W. Lewis · 2004 · Sector-level explanation of why productivity differs so much between countries
Rana Foroohar · 2022 · The case for localisation after the pandemic supply shocks.