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Economics and World History
Author | : Paul Bairoch |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226034638 |
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Paul Bairoch deflates twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these myths are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth, and that colonial powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became rich through the exploitation of the Third World. Bairoch shows that these beliefs are based on insufficient knowledge and wrong interpretations of the history of economies of the United States, Europe, and the Third World, and he re-examines the facts to set the record straight. Bairoch argues that until the early 1960s, the history of international trade of the developed countries was almost entirely one of protectionism rather than a "Golden Era" of free trade, and he reveals that, in fact, past periods of economic growth in the Western World correlated strongly with protectionist policy. He also demonstrates that developed countries did not exploit the Third World for raw materials during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as some economists and many politicians have held. Among the many other myths that Bairoch debunks are beliefs about whether colonization triggered the Industrial Revolution, the effects of the economic development of the West on the Third World, and beliefs about the 1929 crash and the Great Depression. Bairoch's lucid prose makes the book equally accessible to economists of every stripe, as well as to historians, political scientists, and other social scientists.
Global Economic History A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Robert C. Allen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199596652 |
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Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
The History of Economics
Author | : Roger E. Backhouse,Keith Tribe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : 191111669X |
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Roger E. Backhouse and Keith Tribe present a broad introduction to the history of economic thought that provides much-needed context behind the development of ideas and a guide through the original writings of major economists. They seek to emphasize a diversity that is sometimes suppressed in more conventional textbooks.
A History of the Global Economy
Author | : Joerg Baten |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107104709 |
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"In co-operation with the International Economic History Association."
A Little History of Economics
Author | : Niall Kishtainy |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780300226317 |
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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of economics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economics and for all readers who seek a better understanding of the full sweep of economic history and ideas. Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, chronological chapters that center on big ideas and events. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics ranging from the invention of money and the rise of agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral economics. The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world.
A Farewell to Alms
Author | : Gregory Clark |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2008-12-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781400827817 |
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Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.
Contours of the World Economy 1 2030 AD
Author | : Angus Maddison |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2007-09-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199227211 |
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This book combines qualitative histories with quantitative data.
The Handbook of Historical Economics
Author | : Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 2021-04-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780128162682 |
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The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand. Provides an historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two Surveys the issues and principal results of the "second cliometric revolution" Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven, empirical economics