Economics and World History: Myths and ParadoxesWe cherish many myths about our histories. Not the least of these myths are those about economic history: such as the roots of depressions, the causes of growth and the reasons behind nations' different stages of economic development. Paul Bairoch sets out in this book to demolish 18 such myths and to reveal generally unnoticed but economically important turning points in modern economic history. |
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... Argentina , Canada and the United States , who were important grain exporters to Europe . Thus , for example , according to the League of Nations calculations , agricultural production in Europe ( excluding the USSR ) between 1925/9 and ...
... Argentina , Canada and the United States , who were important grain exporters to Europe . Thus , for example , according to the League of Nations calculations , agricultural production in Europe ( excluding the USSR ) between 1925/9 and ...
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... Argentina , which , in this respect as in many others , does not belong to the Third World ) were still exporting more cereals than they imported . But for the 1948-52 period this excess changed to a deficit . The annual average deficit ...
... Argentina , which , in this respect as in many others , does not belong to the Third World ) were still exporting more cereals than they imported . But for the 1948-52 period this excess changed to a deficit . The annual average deficit ...
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... Argentina , which , as a result of its large exports of agricultural products , was the tenth- to fifteenth - richest country in the world by 1910. The combined effects of a slow growth in its agricultural productivity and the limited ...
... Argentina , which , as a result of its large exports of agricultural products , was the tenth- to fifteenth - richest country in the world by 1910. The combined effects of a slow growth in its agricultural productivity and the limited ...
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Were only the fascist economies able to overcome | 7 |
Was there a Golden Era of European Free Trade? | 16 |
NonEuropean traditional trade policies before the nineteenth | 30 |
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