The Great Convergence

书名：The Great ConvergenceInformationTechnologyandtheNewGlobalization
作者：RichardBaldwin
译者：
ISBN：9780674660489
出版社：BelknapPress:AnImprintofHarvardUniversityPress
出版时间：2016-11-14
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：344
豆瓣评分： 8.1

书籍简介：

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam power and international peace lowered the costs of moving goods across borders. This triggered a self-fueling cycle of industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today’s rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored jobs. The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid industrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization of developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is only now petering out. The result is today’s Great Convergence. Because globalization is now driven by fast-paced technological change and the fragmentation of production, its impact is more sudden, more selective, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable. As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.

作者简介：

Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London.

书友短评：

@ 坏猪的坏_开心的 作者利用商品、信息、勞動力流動這三種經濟現象的成本變化以一種非常清晰的方式解釋了全球化誕生及演變的原則，前兩次全球化浪潮分別意味著因商品和信息流動成本下降出現的Unbundling。Baldwin認為未來的全球化意味著勞動力能夠通過telepresence和telerobotics實現虛擬地在場（virtual presence），即其生產能力從物理存在上剝離進入全球分工系統，但這種想象的力道顯然不足。（ 看了1-3和10，感觉有点神棍的意思，全球化的三个阶段（the cost of moving goods-ideas-people依次下降），交通的发展促进了商品的流动(goods)，ICT技术促进了观念的流动(ideas)，同时未来的ICT技术的进一步发展实现了劳动力的虚拟离岸作业(people)，但是很奇怪的是，未来发达国家可以将低端劳动外包给离岸的发展中国家的工人，这些工人在本国操作遥控即可实现现如今肉体在场才可能实现的服务，但是这种畅想有没有考虑到信息安全的问题（以及高度自动化的可能），除此之外，IC和IT的作用是不同的，IC促进了信息的流动，更好辅助fractionalization，但是IT技术的自动化和程序化实际上实现了生产线全包，其实降低了fractionalization @ 李小饼 Baldwin老师的书 🆙！听老师上课真的是享受😆

Introduction
I. The Long History of Globalization in Short
1. Humanizing the Globe and the First Bundling
2. Steam and Globalization’s First Unbundling
3. ICT and Globalization’s Second Unbundling
II. Extending the Globalization Narrative
4. A Three-Cascading-Constraints View of Globalization
5. What’s Really New?
III. Understanding Globalization’s Changes
6. Quintessential Globalization Economics
7. Accounting for Globalization’s Changed Impact
IV. Why It Matters
8. Rethinking G7 Globalization Policies
9. Rethinking Development Policy
V. Looking Ahead
10. Future Globalization
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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