[PEN-L:30560] Re: Trade Query

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Subject: [PEN-L:30560] Re: Trade Query
From: Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:39:04 -0500

On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 16:59:30 (-0700) Ellen Frank writes:
>A colleague of mine said recently that world merchandise
>trade was only  $20 billion in 1913 compared to $7 trillion
>today.  Now  obviously the 1913 figure could be increased by
>an order of magnitude simply by adjusting for inflation.  But I also
>wondered whether the 1913 figure includes intra-empire
>trade.  When the Dutch took rubber from the Congo or
>oil from Indonesia, did this count as trade?  Does anyone
>know?

Also, isn't about half or so (more??) of current trade "intrafirm"
trade?


Bill

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Thread context:
- [PEN-L:30562] Hi tech warfare, Michael Perelman Wed 25 Sep 2002, 23:58 GMT
- [PEN-L:30557] Workers CP Denmark - On Attack on Arafat Compound, Hari Kumar Wed 25 Sep 2002, 19:55 GMT
  - [PEN-L:30558] Re: Workers CP Denmark - On Attack on Arafat Compound, Michael Perelman Wed 25 Sep 2002, 20:50 GMT
    - [PEN-L:30559] Trade Query, Ellen Frank Wed 25 Sep 2002, 21:00 GMT
      
      [PEN-L:30560] Re: Trade Query, Bill Lear Wed 25 Sep 2002, 21:35 GMT
      
      [PEN-L:30561] Re: Re: Trade Query, Ellen Frank Wed 25 Sep 2002, 21:56 GMT
- [PEN-L:30556] Re: Turkey warns of action if Kurds form state, Hari Kumar Wed 25 Sep 2002, 19:47 GMT
- [PEN-L:30555] banks, Ian Murray Wed 25 Sep 2002, 18:34 GMT
- [PEN-L:30553] Turkey warns of action if Kurds form state, Sabri Oncu Wed 25 Sep 2002, 17:24 GMT

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