Essay on the main trends of the world economy during the XXth century, stressing the structural and institutional changes of the first half of that period, the expansion and crisis of the international economy in the post-WWII and the main features of the globalization process of the end of that century and the beginning of the XXIth (discussion on the structural inequalities among countries and societies). Special sections of the work are devoted to trade (from liberalism to protectionism and from multilateralism to neoprotectionism), to international finance and exchange (from gold standard to gold-dollar standard and the overall flotation of currencies) and to the institutional structure of the international economy of the XXth century.
International economy; International economic organizations; World trade finance; Globalization