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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... indicators of import tariff levels around 1913 26 Table 3.1 Ratio of import duties to imports in the United States for significant trade policy periods and recent data , 1823 / 4-1988 / 90 35 Table 3.2 Indicators of tariff levels in ...
... indicators of import tariff levels around 1913 26 Table 3.1 Ratio of import duties to imports in the United States for significant trade policy periods and recent data , 1823 / 4-1988 / 90 35 Table 3.2 Indicators of tariff levels in ...
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... indicator of economic evolution . One important shortcoming of GNP is that it also includes external negative costs of economic development . For example , increased traffic congestion in cities means an increase in GNP through higher ...
... indicator of economic evolution . One important shortcoming of GNP is that it also includes external negative costs of economic development . For example , increased traffic congestion in cities means an increase in GNP through higher ...
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... indicator of economic evolution . One important shortcoming of GNP is that it also includes external negative costs of economic development . For example , increased traffic congestion in cities means an increase in GNP through higher ...
... indicator of economic evolution . One important shortcoming of GNP is that it also includes external negative costs of economic development . For example , increased traffic congestion in cities means an increase in GNP through higher ...
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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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Africa agricultural products annual growth rate Argentina average Bairoch Britain British capita GNP cereals Chapter China coal colonial commercial policy compared consumption Continental Europe Corn Laws cotton decline deficit depression developed world economic development economic growth Economic History economists Empire especially estimate European countries excluding fact factors figures foreign trade France free trade future developed countries future Third World Germany global GNP per capita higher implies import duties Industrial Revolution international trade Japan Latin America League of Nations less liberal major million tons negative nineteenth century Ottoman Empire period petroleum population growth probably protectionism protectionist raw materials regions represented result role sectors share situation Statistics sugar Table terms of trade textile Third World market total exports Trade balance trade policy trend tropical turning point underdevelopment unemployment United Kingdom United Nations urbanization various issues volume Western developed countries Western Europe World market economies