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The Rate of Growth of World Trade, 1830–1973

In: The World Economic Order

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  • Arthur Lewis
  • Alexander Yeats

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Why did world trade grow so rapidly after the Second World War, up at least to the recession commencing in 1974? The growth rate from say 1953 to 1973 averaged 8.0 per cent per year.1 The period immediately preceding the war was disastrous; 1913 to 1939 averaged only 0.9 per cent per year. But even in the so-called golden age of capitalism, say 1873 to 1913, the rate of growth of world trade averaged only 3.3 per cent per year.

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  • Arthur Lewis & Alexander Yeats, 1981. "The Rate of Growth of World Trade, 1830–1973," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sven Grassman & Erik Lundberg (ed.), The World Economic Order, chapter 1, pages 11-81, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-16488-2_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16488-2_2
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