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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Myths and Paradoxes Paul Bairoch. population growth ( 1.1 % per year for 1890-1900 and 1.3 % for 1900-13 ) . Therefore , in terms of overall economic growth , the 1900-13 period was better than the preceding one and the best up to that ...
Myths and Paradoxes Paul Bairoch. population growth ( 1.1 % per year for 1890-1900 and 1.3 % for 1900-13 ) . Therefore , in terms of overall economic growth , the 1900-13 period was better than the preceding one and the best up to that ...
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... economic growth achieved during the nineteenth century represented a large step forward . Even if we limit ourselves to Europe , which between 1500 and 1800 was on an upward trend , the annual rate of per capita growth was certainly ...
... economic growth achieved during the nineteenth century represented a large step forward . Even if we limit ourselves to Europe , which between 1500 and 1800 was on an upward trend , the annual rate of per capita growth was certainly ...
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... Economic Growth , Tübingen , 1981 , pp . 111-40 . 3 Ohkawa , K. and Rosovsky , H. , Japanese Economic Growth . Trend Accelera- tion in the Twentieth Century , Stanford , 1973 , p . 17 . 4 Maddison , A. , Les phases du développement ...
... Economic Growth , Tübingen , 1981 , pp . 111-40 . 3 Ohkawa , K. and Rosovsky , H. , Japanese Economic Growth . Trend Accelera- tion in the Twentieth Century , Stanford , 1973 , p . 17 . 4 Maddison , A. , Les phases du développement ...
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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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