====== Points of Divergence : Economy and Trade ====== Points of divergence related to economic and trade developments throughout history. ==== Industrialization ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=248278|Plausibility check: Industrialization without liberalism ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=179976|Plausibility check: Non-industrializing Westernization]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=304914|Mercantilism or Free Trade for Industrialization ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302624|Alternate Sites of Industry and the Resources Required]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=227233|Where would the industrial centres of an independant Confederate States of America be located ?]]** **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=352958|Challenge: Nuclear energy for developing/rural areas]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Measurement Systems and Standards ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257030|More countries using Imperial measurements ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261825|Restrict the Metric System]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261254|WI the Metric system was duodecimal ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=307306|Alternative dating systems]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=335374|Challenge/WI: Two separate Prime Meridians]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261092|Challenge: Esperanto as Air Traffic and Aviation Language]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=340764|The British develop the Intermodel Container between the world wars]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Resources and Resource Extraction ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=309082|Pre-industrial human impact on greenhouse effect and global temperature ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=278505|Spain without an ounce of silver]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=144535|Ramifications of a sudden decline of the sugar cane industry after the 1740s]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=226433|The effects of the boll weevil infestation on the agriculture and economy of an independent CSA]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=321612|WI: Higher oil prices from 1950s]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=318517|WI: No lead gasoline]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-more-oil.11745/|No more oil]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Infrastructure Projects ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=303910|Roman Semaphore Lines and Horse Drawn Cars]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8233|Earlier American canals]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=230323|Earliest possible Suez Canal ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=271330|Challenge: Suez Canal built 200 years earlier than in OTL]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=178725|How early can you feasibly dig a canal at the site of the OTL Suez Canal ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=69415|Large construction projects wank]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=325891|Alternatives to Heathrow Airport]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=262396|WI the Atlantropa dams were built ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259226|A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel ?]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Banking, Finance and Monetary Units ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=148035|The late Roman republic founds the first professional banks]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=37821|WI Britain doesn't return to the Gold Standard in the 1920s]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=272776|Plausibility check: How early can we get paper money ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260733|Paper money in the Ancien Regime lasting]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=359806|Plausibility check: Early French Central bank ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=227570|Effect on US banks if the Central Powers win WWI ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256274|ATL offshore tax havens]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=149520|Accounting PODs and alternate accounting]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Economic Trends ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265041|Challenge: Avoid Black slavery]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132934|WI No African Slave trade in the New World]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=59172|Plausibility check: Earlier artic trade between Russia and Europe ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267035|WI London held firm on the Stamp Act ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=169768|WI: A Canadian car company (with a POD between 1900 and 1960)]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=335833|Challenge: No Great Depression]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269896|Recovery from the Great Depression without WWII ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=186981|More "Economic Tigers" (with a POD between 1945 and 1975)]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132568|More "Economic Tigers"]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=351641|Challenge: More Economic Miracles in the Third World]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=140389|WI the British were the world's best project managers ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=301199|Challenge: Prevent the Great Recession]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=360055|Great Recession PODs ?]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== New Trade Routes ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=307555|Challenge: The Chinese Envoy reaches Rome in 97 AD]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263618|How hard was trade in the HRE ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=93491|Contact between the Aztecs and the Incas]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-a-seafaring-culture-like-the-vikings-in-southern-chile.278669/|Challenge: A seafaring culture like the Vikings in southern Chile]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=132934|WI No African Slave trade in the New World]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=345593|Plausibility check: Japan and Korea - Attractiveness to Europeans]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=59172|Plausibility check: Earlier arctic trade between Russia and Europe ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-earlier-discovery-of-the-north-west-passage.392205/|WI: Earlier Discovery of the North-West Passage]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== International Economic Clubs ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166171|Challenge: Maintain the Mediterranean economic core]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=335108|Why wasn't EFTA that "successful" ?]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Specific Companies ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=279931|WI: No fast food chains]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257373|WI: No McDonalds (1)]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263903|WI: No McDonalds (2)]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=264065|WI the DuMont television network had survived ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=305438|Challenge:Tim Hortons as the no. 1 fast food restaurant in America]]** **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=57824|Non-American multinational fast-food and similar chains]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=346805|Challenge: An Asian-themed fast food chain is as big as McDonald's or Burger King]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=326770|Challenge: Three major present day airliner manufacturers instead of two]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=356914|Could the jetliner duopoly be avoided ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269452|More Successful Auto Companies]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=293334|North American aerospace/defense companies making cars ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=331651|Challenge: Studebaker survives the 1960s]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=117528|WI: The Delorean Motor Company is successful ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=36036|DeLorean moved to Ford, Chrysler or AMC ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13854|General Motors alternate history]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=3584|WI Ford and Chrysler had merged in the 1980s ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256831|Bain Capital buys Ford in 1987]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=316490|WI Sony did not buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment ?]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=316325|WI: Apple goes under in the 1990s]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=139498|Challenge: Oldsmobile survives]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290320|Keep Nokia competitive]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== Other / Miscellaneous / In need of sorting ==== **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=152074|American cities that could have been more prominent]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-wi-singapore-of-the-caribbean.384122/|Challenge: A "Singapore of the Caribbean"]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=219671|ASBs reverse standards of living in countries]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=279767|Challenge: Native Americans "pull an Iwakura"]]** **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=348345|Challenge: Make Africa the most developed and stable region in the world (with a POD in the 16th century at the earliest)]]** Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[pods:agriculture|Points of Divergence : Agriculture]]** **[[pods:alternate colonization|Points of Divergence : Alternate Colonization]]** **[[pods:arts architecture and monuments|Points of Divergence : Arts, Architecture and Monuments]]** **[[pods:industrial revolution|Points of Divergence : Industrial Revolution]]** **[[pods:scientific_discoveries_and_inventions|Points of Divergence : Scientific Discoveries and Inventions]]** **[[timelines:Economic Timelines]]** **[[timelines:Transport Timelines]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**