Back to the Future: Jeffrey Williamson on globalisation in history
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon
Published: December 2003
Jeffrey Williamson is a leading authority on the economic history of the
international economy. His interests cover a wide area within the field of
economic history and include research on international economic development,
the industrial revolution, industrialisation and de-industrialisation, tariff policy,
factor price convergence, demography and economic development, and
international labour migration. Since the early 1960s he has been a major
contributor to the ‘cliometric’ approach to economic history and his research
illustrates how history is particularly relevant to the modern debate on
‘globalisation’. In this interview Brian Snowdon discusses with Professor
Williamson his more recent research relating to the global economy in
historical perspective.