{"id":323,"date":"2017-03-20T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/?p=323"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:42:58","slug":"the-us-civil-war-globalization-and-the-city-of-bombay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"The US Civil War, Globalization, and the City of Bombay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Alex Tabarrok has a <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/03\/us-civil-war-globalization-city-bombay.html\">fascinating post<\/a> at the Marginal Revolution about how the structure of Bombay is intimately tied to the American Civil War. Cotton prices skyrocketed\u2013between 1860 and 1863-1864 prices rose by a factor of four on average and at times by a factor of 10. As cotton exports from the United States fell, exports from Persia, Egypt and especially India boomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Alex Tabarrok has a fascinating post at the Marginal Revolution about how the structure of Bombay is intimately tied to the American Civil War. Cotton prices skyrocketed\u2013between 1860 and 1863-1864 prices rose by a factor of four on average and at times by a factor of 10. As cotton exports from the United States [&hellip;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/?p=323\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<i class=\"icon-forward\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sicwrt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}