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The World's Key Industry

History and Economics of International Shipping

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Gelina Harlaftis

    1. Department of History, Ionian University, Greece

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  2. Stig Tenold

    1. Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

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  3. Jesús M. Valdaliso

    1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of the Basque Country, Spain

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold, Jesús M. Valdaliso
    Pages 1-10

  3. Lewis R. Fischer and the Progress of Maritime Economic History

    • David M. Williams, Lars U. Scholl
    Pages 11-28

  4. Shipping and Staple Economies in the Periphery

    • C. Knick Harley
    Pages 29-42

  5. An Appraisal of the Progress of the Steamship in the Nineteenth Century

    • David M. Williams, John Armstrong
    Pages 43-63

  6. The Advantages of Water Carriage: Scale Economies and Shipping Technology, c. 1870–2000

    • Yrjö Kaukiainen
    Pages 64-87

  7. Building the Networks of Trade: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Maritime History

    • Espen Ekberg, Even Lange, Eivind Merok
    Pages 88-105

  8. The Development of Commercial Infrastructure for World Shipping

    • Gordon Boyce
    Pages 106-123

  9. Government and the British Shipping Industry in the Later Twentieth Century

    • Sarah Palmer
    Pages 124-141

  10. Why They are Tall and We are Small! Competition between Antwerp and Rotterdam in the Twentieth Century

    • Stephan Vanfraechem
    Pages 142-157

  11. Institutional Path Dependence in Port Regulation: A Comparison of New Zealand and Australia

    • James Reveley, Malcolm Tull
    Pages 158-179

  12. China’s Seaport Development during the Early Open Door Policy Period, 1978–2002

    • Adolf K. Y. Ng, Ka-chai Tam
    Pages 180-199

  13. Private Companies, Culture and Place in the Development of Hull’s Maritime Business Sector, c.1860–1914

    • Michaela G. Barnard, David J. Starkey
    Pages 200-219

  14. Risks and Rewards: The Business of Norwegian Shipping

    • Stig Tenold
    Pages 220-234

  15. Business Groups and Entrepreneurial Families in Southern Europe: Comparing Greek and Spanish Shipowners in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    • Gelina Harlaftis, Jesús M. Valdaliso
    Pages 235-262

  16. Epilogue: A Key Industry or an Invisible Industry?

    • Gelina Harlaftis, Stig Tenold, Jesús M. Valdaliso
    Pages 263-272

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 273-305
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About this book

Maritime transport has been the main driver of trade growth, and the emergence and development of a global economy. This collection of essays from distinguished economists and historians takes an international and comparative perspective, covering topics ranging from technological advance and the role of the state to maritime business development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Ionian University, Greece

    Gelina Harlaftis

  • Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

    Stig Tenold

  • School of Economics and Business Administration, University of the Basque Country, Spain

    Jesús M. Valdaliso

About the editors

GELINA HARLAFTIS is professor of Maritime History at the Department of History of the Ionian University, Greece. She graduated from the University of Athens and completed her graduate studies at the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil). She was President of the International Association of Maritime Economic History from 2004-2008 and was a visiting Professor and a Fellow in universities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Her last books are co-authored with Ioannis Theotokas; Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business (2009) and with Nikos Karapidakis; Kostas Sbonias and Vaios Vaiopoulos,The New Ways of History (2010).

JESUS M. VALDALISO is professor of Economic History at the School of Economics and Business administration of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, and of Maritime Business History in a MBA of Deusto University and the Basque Government. He is the author of several books and articles on the Spanish shipping and shipbuilding industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is currently leading a research project on the historical origins of industrial clusters in the Basque Country and its legacy for the present. He is President of the International Association of Maritime Economic History and visiting scholar at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard Business School.

STIG TENOLD is professor of Economic History at The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. His main research field is twentieth century Norwegian and international shipping history, and he is the author of Tankers in Trouble - Norwegian Shipping and the Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, and Odfjell - The History of a Shipping Company (2006), co-authored with Atle Thowsen. He is currently involved in projects on maritime innovation, Nordic shipping in the twentieth century and Norwegian voyage patterns during the transition from sail to steam.

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