A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

Name: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Author: William J. Bernstein
ISBN: 9781555848439

William J. Bernstein

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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

William J. Bernstein

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A Splendid Exchange was a Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year. How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. Journey from ancient sailing ships carrying silk from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly on spices in the sixteenth; from the American trade battles of the early twentieth century to the modern era of televisions from Taiwan, lettuce from Mexico, and T-shirts from China. Bernstein conveys trade and globalization not in political terms, but rather as an ever-evolving historical constant, like war or religion, that will continue to foster the growth of intellectual capital, shrink the world, and propel the trajectory of the human species.

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