Cargo: How Trade Changed the World

Greg Clydesdale is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Lincoln in New Zealand. He holds a doctorate on the determinants of industrial leadership and economic growth and is also the author of *Business Opportunity: The Right Place at the Right Time*. Transporting cargo to distant lands involves aspects that stimulate the imagination, as well as enriching those who send and receive it. Throughout history, it has generated a global economy in which more people live in comfort than at any other time. In this book, Greg Clydesdale explores how trade has changed the world over the past 800 years, paving the way for globalization. He analyzes everything from Song dynasty China to modern-day Japan and the United States, nations that, at different times, found new ways to create wealth and develop successful economic cultures. *Cargo* also tells the story of individuals—traders, bankers, factory owners, and entrepreneurs—who played a unique role in their countries' development. He also explains the basic dynamics of industrial competitiveness and the volatile nature of trade between nations. The result is a global vision of the world's economic evolution, through the creation and exchange of values between peoples.