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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... energy - and with a balance sheet on the eve of World War I. I will then deal with minerals and other raw materials . Energy : a cheap and bulky good The history of international trade in energy products begins very late , even if we ...
... energy - and with a balance sheet on the eve of World War I. I will then deal with minerals and other raw materials . Energy : a cheap and bulky good The history of international trade in energy products begins very late , even if we ...
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... energy . For obvious reasons , as far as the non - commercial energy sources were con- cerned , there was an almost total self - sufficiency in almost every country . If we take the total of commercial energy products , we can see ...
... energy . For obvious reasons , as far as the non - commercial energy sources were con- cerned , there was an almost total self - sufficiency in almost every country . If we take the total of commercial energy products , we can see ...
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... energy consumption . This caused a reduction in local production of energy ( mainly coal ) and led to an external energy dependency where , until the mid - 1940s the West was still producing more energy than it consumed . In Chapter 5 ...
... energy consumption . This caused a reduction in local production of energy ( mainly coal ) and led to an external energy dependency where , until the mid - 1940s the West was still producing more energy than it consumed . In Chapter 5 ...
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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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