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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... increase in Europe , China and India was about 0.4-0.6 % . After the Industrial Revolution the 40 years of most rapid population growth for the developed countries was the 1870-1910 period , where it stood at 1.1 % . But this was made ...
... increase in Europe , China and India was about 0.4-0.6 % . After the Industrial Revolution the 40 years of most rapid population growth for the developed countries was the 1870-1910 period , where it stood at 1.1 % . But this was made ...
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... increase was below 2 % per year . In the Third World this situation did not allow the rest of the economy to absorb the agricultural labour surplus . Therefore , we saw a continuous increase in the agricultural workforce which ...
... increase was below 2 % per year . In the Third World this situation did not allow the rest of the economy to absorb the agricultural labour surplus . Therefore , we saw a continuous increase in the agricultural workforce which ...
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... increase in both yields and productivity , while in the United States yields , especially of cereals , remained stable while productivity increased even more rapidly than in Europe . In the 1930s cereal yields in many Third World ...
... increase in both yields and productivity , while in the United States yields , especially of cereals , remained stable while productivity increased even more rapidly than in Europe . In the 1930s cereal yields in many Third World ...
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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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