List of case studies -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Structure: the building blocks -- Introduction: echoes of mercantilism -- The gains from trade: winners and losers -- The political economy of trade: the domestic setting -- Trade, growth and development -- Trade, investment and the...

"Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a fresh perspective on why the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities instead of slaves in the nineteenth century. This study...

"The Global Economy - a Concise History traces the history of global economy over the past thousand years. In doing so, it explores all the main waves of globalization, from the trade revolution of the Middle Ages, to the Great and Little Divergence between the West and the East, as well as the...

Shifting geopolitical sands: competition, cooperation or conflict? The 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum coincides with a period of profound global change. These events prompted the Forum to draw on its network of diverse experts - heads of leading global think tanks and research...