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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... costs , the end - user price of British yarn in India ( or elsewhere ) was certainly only a fraction of local production costs , and those production costs could not be reduced significantly since wage levels were very low . Therefore ...
... costs , the end - user price of British yarn in India ( or elsewhere ) was certainly only a fraction of local production costs , and those production costs could not be reduced significantly since wage levels were very low . Therefore ...
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... cost of transport . To give an approximate idea of the parameters involved before the age of steam and railways , the following are some indications of prices and costs . In order to have a meaningful indicator of transport cost I ...
... cost of transport . To give an approximate idea of the parameters involved before the age of steam and railways , the following are some indications of prices and costs . In order to have a meaningful indicator of transport cost I ...
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... costs , and these costs fell considerably during the 1876/80 to 1926/9 period . Since there are more import prices for primary products than for manufactured goods , and since for those products transport costs are of particular ...
... costs , and these costs fell considerably during the 1876/80 to 1926/9 period . Since there are more import prices for primary products than for manufactured goods , and since for those products transport costs are of particular ...
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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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