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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... Free Trade ? The myth of protectionism as a cause of the 1929 crash and of depression in the 1930s brings us to a more general and much more important myth ... Free Trade? 1815: an ocean of protectionism surrounding a few liberal islands.
... Free Trade ? The myth of protectionism as a cause of the 1929 crash and of depression in the 1930s brings us to a more general and much more important myth ... Free Trade? 1815: an ocean of protectionism surrounding a few liberal islands.
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... free trade era in the United Kingdom , and , by one of those historical coincidences , that year ( six months later , in November ) was also that of the suicide of the ill and financially harassed apostle of protectionism , Friedrich ...
... free trade era in the United Kingdom , and , by one of those historical coincidences , that year ( six months later , in November ) was also that of the suicide of the ill and financially harassed apostle of protectionism , Friedrich ...
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... free trade into France , and thus indirectly to the rest of the Continent , against the will of most of those in charge of the different sectors of the economy . The minority in favour of free trade were strongly supported by Napoleon ...
... free trade into France , and thus indirectly to the rest of the Continent , against the will of most of those in charge of the different sectors of the economy . The minority in favour of free trade were strongly supported by Napoleon ...
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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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