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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... European depression As we saw in Chapter 2 , the liberal phase of European trade policies lasted from 1860 to 1892 while the period when free trade reached its height in Europe in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly during the twelve ...
... European depression As we saw in Chapter 2 , the liberal phase of European trade policies lasted from 1860 to 1892 while the period when free trade reached its height in Europe in the nineteenth century was undoubtedly during the twelve ...
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... European colonization remains largely to be written , there is no doubt that it had the same negative elements as Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries . Furthermore , those colonizations in many cases lasted as long , or ...
... European colonization remains largely to be written , there is no doubt that it had the same negative elements as Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries . Furthermore , those colonizations in many cases lasted as long , or ...
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... European colonization as against a profusion of studies on European colonization . This profusion implies , ipso facto , a wide range of points of view , from underestimation to overestimation of the negative aspects . Was the West the ...
... European colonization as against a profusion of studies on European colonization . This profusion implies , ipso facto , a wide range of points of view , from underestimation to overestimation of the negative aspects . Was the West the ...
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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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