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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... Europe Slow growth 1829 / 31-1842 / 4 3.5 1.6 2.5 ( 0.8 ) 0.6 More rapid growth 1842 / 4-1868 / 70 5.0 2.0 2.3 ( 0.9 ) 0.7 Depression 1868 / 70-1891 / 3 2.8 1.1 1.9 0.7 0.9 Rapid growth 1891 / 3-1911 / 13 3.8 2.4 3.4 1.7 1.0 Continental ...
... Europe Slow growth 1829 / 31-1842 / 4 3.5 1.6 2.5 ( 0.8 ) 0.6 More rapid growth 1842 / 4-1868 / 70 5.0 2.0 2.3 ( 0.9 ) 0.7 Depression 1868 / 70-1891 / 3 2.8 1.1 1.9 0.7 0.9 Rapid growth 1891 / 3-1911 / 13 3.8 2.4 3.4 1.7 1.0 Continental ...
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... Continental Europe between 1866 and 1872 . It should be noted here , as we saw in Chapter 2 , that as far as ... Europe the figures were usually somewhere between these two extremes . In this period grain accounted for some 35-40 % of ...
... Continental Europe between 1866 and 1872 . It should be noted here , as we saw in Chapter 2 , that as far as ... Europe the figures were usually somewhere between these two extremes . In this period grain accounted for some 35-40 % of ...
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... Continental Europe's trade deficit towards North America represented 5-6 % of imports from that region . This reached 32 % by 1890 and 59 % around 1900 . Similar evolutions but different consequences The apparent contradiction between ...
... Continental Europe's trade deficit towards North America represented 5-6 % of imports from that region . This reached 32 % by 1890 and 59 % around 1900 . Similar evolutions but different consequences The apparent contradiction between ...
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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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