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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... agricultural products from non - temperate regions . According to my estimates and calculations , the total quantity of those goods around 1700 amounted to about 100,000-120,000 tons and 380,000- 410,000 tons in 1790. In the years ...
... agricultural products from non - temperate regions . According to my estimates and calculations , the total quantity of those goods around 1700 amounted to about 100,000-120,000 tons and 380,000- 410,000 tons in 1790. In the years ...
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... products exceeded agricultural imports by 175-200 % . We have relatively good figures for the inter - war 152 Economics and World History The Third World has become a net importer of food almost a net importer of agricultural products.
... products exceeded agricultural imports by 175-200 % . We have relatively good figures for the inter - war 152 Economics and World History The Third World has become a net importer of food almost a net importer of agricultural products.
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... agricultural products , probably leading to further disruptive effects on their local economies . Also , since the early 1970s the developed countries in the East have rapidly become large net importers of agricultural products from the ...
... agricultural products , probably leading to further disruptive effects on their local economies . Also , since the early 1970s the developed countries in the East have rapidly become large net importers of agricultural products from 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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