Michael D. Bordo is professor of economics and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University. He is the editor of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Macroeconomic History and the author or editor of many books. Alan M. Taylor is professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, and coauthor of Global Capital Markets. Jeffrey G. Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the author or coauthor of many books, including Globalization and History. All three are research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

"The volume reads, in some ways, like a handbook of the history of globalization.... It should prove valuable to any scholar interested in the long and winding course the international economy has taken.... Together, [the articles] remind readers just how much may be at stake in the process of economic integration, and just how important a well-articulated understanding of that process may be in guiding the political responses to globalization. In that regard, this volume makes a valuable contribution." - William J. Collins, EH.net"