States versus markets: the emergence of a global economy/ Herman M Schwartz

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Part I States agriculture and globalization -- 1. The Rise of the modern state: from street gangs to mafias -- 2. States markets and the origins of international inequality -- 3. Economic and hegemonic cycles -- 4. The Industrial revolution and late development -- 5. Agricultural exporters and the search for labour -- 6. Agriculture-led growth and crisis in the periphery: Ricardian success Ricardian failure -- 7. The Collapse of the nineteenth-century economy: the erosion of hegemony -- Part II The Reemergence of globalistion -- 8. The Depression US domestic politics and the foundation of the Post-World War II system -- 9. International money capital flows and domestic politics -- 10 Transnational firms: a war of all against all -- 11. Industrialization in the old agricultural periphery: the rise of the newly industrialized countries -- 12. Trade protection and renewed globalization -- 13. US hegemony: declining from below -- 14. US hegemony: reviving or declining from the top down