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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... fact , there is almost an inverse relationship : British colonization , and more generally European modern colonization , can be largely explained by the Industrial Revolution . It is obvious that the fact that colonization followed ...
... fact , there is almost an inverse relationship : British colonization , and more generally European modern colonization , can be largely explained by the Industrial Revolution . It is obvious that the fact that colonization followed ...
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... fact , there is little left of the assumptions which generated the mechanistic conclusions of the theory of the ' trade engine of growth ' . . . In short , the ' engine ' for foodstuffs has no fuel , while there is no fixed gear for ...
... fact , there is little left of the assumptions which generated the mechanistic conclusions of the theory of the ' trade engine of growth ' . . . In short , the ' engine ' for foodstuffs has no fuel , while there is no fixed gear for ...
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... facts that illustrate this . The first hard fact is that what economic historians call the great European depression began during the period 1869–73 , when trade policies in Europe had reached an unprecedented degree of liberalism ( and ...
... facts that illustrate this . The first hard fact is that what economic historians call the great European depression began during the period 1869–73 , when trade policies in Europe had reached an unprecedented degree of liberalism ( and ...
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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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