OECD Insights : Origins and consequences.

Foreword
 Acknowledgments
 Table of contents
 1. Introduction
 By way of introduction ... 
 What kind of globalisation?
 A highly controversial phenomenon
 What this book is about
 Box: Some new faces of the globalised economy
 2. The merchant, the inventor and the ruler (from the neolithic period to the Second World War)
 By way of introduction ... 
 The origins of economic globalisation (from Antiquity to the 14th century)
 Empires and world economies
 The Middle Ages: European downturn, Asian dynamism
 The new horizons of the Renaissance (15th century-18th century)
 Trade --
A tool of power. The Industrial Revolution and the explosion of international trade (late 18th century-1914)Box: Until the early 19th century, global GDFP per capita grew very slowly. Asia and Europe remained shoulder to shoulder for a long time
 Figure: Increasingly affordable shipping
 Figure: Economic expansion of European countries, 16th century-21st century
 The two World Wars stall the globalisation process (1914-45)
 Box: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a protectionist over-reaction
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 3. Growing economic integration in a divided world (from 1945 to the 1990s)
 By way of introduction ... A new global ecosystem favourable to tradeFigure: Trade and transaction costs have diminished
 Borders open to trade: The GATT-WTO dynamic
 The free movement of capital
 Do regional economic organisations drive or hinder globalisation?
 The major role of MNEs
 The quest for raw materials and the convergence of distribution markets
 The fragmentation of production and quest for low-wage countries
 The era of networked MNEs
 Box: Thanks to its optimised global supply chain, assembly time for the Boeing 737 dropped from 45 to 8 days
 Figure: The history of globalisation is not linear. Find out more4. A global or semi-global village? (1990s to present)
 By way of introduction ... 
 The (almost) flat world of goods and capital
 A world goods superstore?
 Figure: Exponential world trade, up to the crisis ... 
 Intermediate goods, the first driver of trade
 An incomplete globalisation of goods
 Box: In real life
 The golden years of financial globalisation
 Widespread cross-border investments
 The dynamism of developing countries with regard to FDI
 Figure: Very dynamic foreign investment, until the crisis hits ... 
 Increasingly integrated financial markets
 Some facts and figures. Principal causesBut financial globalisation is still incomplete
 Services and workers: A case of \"semi-globalisation\"?
 The intense internationalisation of a small number of services
 Highly controlled labour flows
 The globalisation of brain power
 By way of conclusion ... 
 Box: A conversation
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 5. Does globalisation promote development?
 By way of introduction ... 
 Globalisation has promoted the development of emerging countries
 Figure: Trade growth in emerging countries
 Globalisation promotes the \"convergence\" of new countries
 Newly attractive countries to \"northern\" countries.