"The Foreign Wealth of Nations" will examine the intersection of the rise of modern European capitalism with non-European actors and institutions. The goal is to understand not only the deep interrelatedness of international trade. Rather than looking at the rise of European empire and wealth as a great divergence, we are looking to understand the odd convergences which led to the period of European economic domination and how it grew from competition and plunder, as well as from emulation and cooperation with foreign empires, in particular in China, India, and the Middle East.

Jacob Soll (USC University Professor and Professor of Philosophy, History and Accounting) is the Martens Economic History Forum leader. He organized this conference along with Jessica Hanser (University of Copenhagen), Ellen Nye (Purdue University), and Pernill Røge (University of Pittsburgh). Speakers include Tonio Andrade (Emory University), Marc Flandreau (University of Pennsylvania), Malick W. Ghachem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gibin Hong (Seoul, Karl Polanyi Institute, Asia), Charles C.H. Less (Academica Sinica, Taiwan/UC Berkeley), Richard Von Glahn (UCLA), R. Bin Wong (UCLA), Meng Zhang (UCLA).

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