A Brief History of International Trade

A Brief History of International Trade - Lecture to students at UC Riverside Extension on February 22, 2012 by Ryan Petersen, President of ImportGenius.com.
Thanks to Professor Rob Perhamus for arranging this talk to students in his International Trade class.

[@tanmaychopra5603]

man seeing this talk now, making so much sense in 2018. This guy is a genius.

[@sydrahsarfaraz9352]

This is by far the most precise and well explained presentation on the historical aspect of International Trade.

[@rossharmonics]

In the 1970s, I read a book by Lionel Rothkrug called "Opposition to Louis XIV" Generally in histories of economics, Adam Smith is the first person to get at least a chapter. There were schools of economics in France a century before. One school stressed agriculture; the other, geography, geopolitics, and trade. This book changed my whole way of thinking about history, politics, and economics. Take a look at how many books on economics ignore geography and trade or even maps. It's good to have someone teaching students about this subject.

[@varahamihiragopu6667]

I wish you had emphasized that shipping enables you to avoid taxes on all the lands in between, and the railways did the same thing for local tolls. The building of cheap cement bridges across rivers, both road and rail, in the 19th century was also hugely a boost to cheaper transport and trade.

[@eherrerausa]

You bought me back to my undergrad trade import / export class. Well done, historical overview, logistics and where we are today. The internet is import / export. !!!

[@maninblack9271]

Now I guess people know what alibaba is. Thank you Sir... Your presentation pretty much sum up all the key points of trade history.

[@merrittcorless1184]

Bravo, sir. We are interdependent to the extreme, which is amazing but also scary. We have a million reasons to get along with our neighbors, of which their services and resources are prime, but we get divided along cultural, religious and class lines. I would wager that if everyone is able to secure the material resources he needs, then the abstract conflicts of religion, etc., between countries could settle into compromise.

[@ImportGenius]

I made a few errors, like referring to the Venetians as the "Genoese." Sorry :(

[@akbarsayyed280]

Nice work Mr.Ryan,lots of hard work !!!!

[@jimihendrixx11]

Thanks Ryan...I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation....Especilally the last quarter.

[@duojiezhaxi3816]

Professor, your video helped me to increase my interest on the International Trade. Thanks a lot. .

[@carennawillmont3706]

Great talk. I love the historical focus.

[@dellably797]

Carenna Willmont A friend of mine he is also an expert trader. He suggested me ANDY LANK METHOD.

[@maoreaksmey7724]

Hello teacher

[@ThomasRaad]

watching this in 2020, im an international commodities broker from NY based in Brazil building my startup in international trade and my dream is to get a chance to speak with ryan peterson

[@varahamihiragopu6667]

An excellent talk combining all the interesting developments from history, from sailboats to steam to internet - even the spice of islands of Pulowai & PuloRun. John Keay's "The Honoroable Company" is an excellent book about East India company; I disagree that they were the worst company in the world. I wish this video were in a better compressed format - 850MB is too much, it should be about 60-70MB. Some of us have limited bandwidth, you know!

[@千山暮雪-x1g]

Good! very nice! hope to have your lecture every day.

[@PraveenRajvogue]

Man! I miss his knowledge sharing lectures! 😭

[@marissoucant]

thanks i feel much better for my english oral, that was really intresting, I mean if I had an english teacher like you, for shure I will be currently bilangue!

[@varahamihiragopu6667]

Also, the description of Islam as an "Iron curtain" was original - and probably true. But there's a story that a Persian monarch destroyed his country's roads by doubling taxes on ox carts and lowering them on camels - which led to lower traffic in carts, lower taxes from them, deterioration of roads, and lower trade capacities. Economic decline by tax policy: mentioned in the book "Infinite in all directions" by Freeman Dyson.

[@ryanpetersen]

Not sure about that but the island of Run in the Moluccas was definitely part of the swap as well.

[@sasakaba5718]

Splendid exchange - Book

[@ineshocine2440]

the guy who invented the boat is noah

[@princeedukere]

I just love the presentation methods

[@salarakmal]

Excellent work.

[@sanzibjazzy749]

amazing talk

[@ThangNguyen-pp4gg]

What is the tool he uses for the presentation? Any idea will be appreciated. Thanks.

[@ThangNguyen-pp4gg]

Thanks *****

[@villamizarvenales]

+Thang Nguyen I think it's Prezzi Buddy....!!

[@lucianamourin3410]

Great Presentation. thank you!

[@mpithapurwala]

Great Lecture

[@user-tw5rv8kx2z]

Great presentation thanks

[@rexelagapay7579]

Great lesson. Is this class college or high school?

[@finalbox4416]

University of California Riverside Extension

[@cncplasmacuttingmachineaut3090]

thanks. Import Genius, I use it very often

[@samburdge9948]

I am still waiting on the follow on episodes

[@pyarsingh7723]

Im from INDIA I liked your ideas

[@anwarkamalkhan6466]

Very Informative .

[@Flanas91]

Sooooo the President of Import Genius spelt it as Import Genious on the board hehe.

[@gregvidall]

Professor, did you noticed that most, if not all European sponsored explorers were Jewish? Columbus, Cabot and even conquistadors? There must be a reason.

[@pooravmehta]

Thanks sir

[@omarshaaban907]

Does anybody know the Book that Ryan is referencing?

[@omarshaaban907]

+joatmonkapitan got it thanks ! :-)

[@omarshaaban907]

A splendid exchange

[@chealseychloey08]

informative lecture

[@esthermighty4807]

Mucuna prurien available for sale in Nigeria

[@ouitran1679]

When I was growing up Zheng He was never mentioned- what balls did this guy have to sail the world?

[@cncplasmacuttingmachineaut3090]

Anyone can recommend some good exporting courses?

[@omarshaaban907]

Anything to do with John Spiers.. Believe he has book called How Small Business Trades Worldwide

[@cncplasmacuttingmachineaut3090]

+Omar Shaaban Thanks man.

[@tasmiamuhammad1039]

Guess who has a history test tomorrow 😂

[@huong1991neu]

great

[@Privateaccount444]

Very interesting video.

[@pandaportugal5517]

Anybody here that can help me with a project?

[@abdishakurahmed8915]

Sent slides

[@gregvidall]

That's why Italians were stereotyped with Spices

[@missciepina]

Very useful, thnx :)

[@pradeeppatel6989]

Nearly 3000 BC, India established as major player in spice trade ( this was the time when Christanity and Islam does not even exist) , this guy telling most of the spice originated in spice island far east without any referance of India in spice trade. To make u understand , today 70% of world spice come from India. Good lecture without 100% correct information.

[@keveenah_3036]

Scam company deceived me into buying records, but I couldn't find anything and they refused to refund my money. I had to call the bank to recover the funds.

[@QweQwe-gt4rx]

😃

[@rexanguis214]

Pretty awesome……anyone know something like this that is slightly more professional, in knowledge, a little more dry…..not saltine cracker dry……just not so “I had my secretary that I also bang on the side scrape this together last few weeks”

[@abdishakourabdilahiawed7234]

Rth

[@vizaikarthick]

he looks like AB divilers :p

[@neharai6512]

sir I 'm Indian please speak slowly

[@raulalejandromartinezramir212]

You could turn on the subtitles in English, on that way you can read what is he saying.

[@doodelay]

I love the history but it's a little nauseating to hear him harp on about the all powerful Europeans. He even said once in the talk, "And that's how the Europeans conquered the world." Lol are you kidding? The eurocentricism from this guy is really unbearable, I like him, but he's unbearable. History from an American point of view is almost always told from the standpoint of Europeans and the stories of no other nations matter.

[@morecowbell235]

Great presentation thanks