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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... example , Argentina , Canada and the United States , who were important grain exporters to Europe . Thus , for example , according to the League of Nations calculations , agricultural production in Europe ( excluding the USSR ) between ...
... example , Argentina , Canada and the United States , who were important grain exporters to Europe . Thus , for example , according to the League of Nations calculations , agricultural production in Europe ( excluding the USSR ) between ...
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... example , at the turn of the twentieth century 79 % of British cotton textiles were exported and that more than half of those exports went to the Third World is probably the major explanation for the myth concerning the role of ...
... example , at the turn of the twentieth century 79 % of British cotton textiles were exported and that more than half of those exports went to the Third World is probably the major explanation for the myth concerning the role of ...
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... example of the implicit dangers of myths . If nineteenth - century economic growth had been indeed rapid , it implies the possibility of such a growth in the first stages of economic development . Had we fully understood the historical ...
... example of the implicit dangers of myths . If nineteenth - century economic growth had been indeed rapid , it implies the possibility of such a growth in the first stages of economic development . Had we fully understood the historical ...
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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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