Trade Globalization, Economic Performance, and Social Protection: Nineteenth-Century British Laissez-Faire and Post-World War II U.S.-Embedded Liberalism

doi:10.4324/9781315256672-13

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Trade Globalization, Economic Performance, and Social Protection: Nineteenth-Century British Laissez-Faire and Post-World War II U.S.-Embedded Liberalism

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How have market and state shaped the long-term evolution of economic performance and social protection during the nineteenth-century globalization associated with British laissez-faire liberalism and the post-World War II globalization associated with U.S.-embedded liberalism?