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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

 

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The Dilemmas of Contemporary Social Science
by Hall, Peter A.
For two hundred years, social science has provided the lens through which people view society and the visions animating most demands for political reform – at least since Adam Smith’s efforts to...
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Hatton, Timothy J.
We live in a world where trade policies are liberal and immigration policies are restrictive. Recent globalization discussions give the impression that this policy difference is a modern phenomenon...
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Published Date: March 2006 More
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
In the first global century before 1914, trade and especially migration had profound effects on both low-wage, labor abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces...
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Published Date: September 2006 More
Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization After 1870
by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Gomez Galvarriato, Aurora
Brazil, Mexico and a few other Latin American republics enjoyed faster industrialization after 1870 than did the rest of Latin America and even faster than the rest of the poor periphery (except East...
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Published Date: May 2008 More
Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and...
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Published Date: March 2008 More
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