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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... Western Europe's exports fell even more sharply : from a peak in the mid - 1950s of 26 % to 13 % in 1972. But Western Europe , which includes the major former colonial powers , has traditionally had the largest absolute volume of ...
... Western Europe's exports fell even more sharply : from a peak in the mid - 1950s of 26 % to 13 % in 1972. But Western Europe , which includes the major former colonial powers , has traditionally had the largest absolute volume of ...
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... Europeans emigrated - most of them to North America . If we limit our- selves to Europe , the 1870-1910 annual increase was only 0.9 % . Western Europe took a century ( between 1810 and 1910 ) to double its population ; the Third World ...
... Europeans emigrated - most of them to North America . If we limit our- selves to Europe , the 1870-1910 annual increase was only 0.9 % . Western Europe took a century ( between 1810 and 1910 ) to double its population ; the Third World ...
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... Europe there was an increase in both yields and productivity , while in the ... Western developed countries , between 1850 and 1950 productivity increased ... Europe : in the United States it had started at the end of the 1930s , whereas ...
... Europe there was an increase in both yields and productivity , while in the ... Western developed countries , between 1850 and 1950 productivity increased ... Europe : in the United States it had started at the end of the 1930s , whereas ...
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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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