Title: Historical views on the recent structural changes in the world economy, 1980-2000

Organizers: Herman Van der Wee (Belgium) and Erik Buyst (Belgium)

Address: Herman Van der Wee, University of Leuven, Center of Economic Studies, Naamse straat 69, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium. Ph: 00 32 3 776 0333. Ph/Fax: 00 32 3 765 9028. 
Email: Herman.vanderwee@econ.kuleuven.ac.be.

Description of the session: The session aims at analysing some crucial aspects of the recent changes in the world economy and at putting these changes in a long-term historical perspective. Aspects to be analysed will be inter alia structural changes in the world economy as a whole and more specifically in the economies of North and South America, in West- and Central-Europe, in East- and Southeast-Europe, in Asia and in the Middle East; furthermore, changes in demographical development and in business organization, implications of the structural changes on ethical attitudes, comparisons of globalisation tendencies at the end of the XXth century with similar tendencies at the end of the XIXth century.

Contributors: Patrick O’Brien (UK); Ivan Berend (USA); Tamás Szmrecsányi (Brazil) and Heraclio Bonilla (Colombia); François Crouzet (France) and Elise S. Brezis (Israel); Sevket Pamuk (Turkey); Jeffrey Williamson (USA); Richard Tilly (Germany); Henri Delanghe (Belgium); Paul Johnson (UK); Caroline Fohlin (USA); Donald Sul (USA); Erik Schokkaert (Belgium); Yasukichi Yasuba, Osaka Gakuin Unversity (Japan).
 

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