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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... less than 2 million inhabitants ) . Indeed , high per capita income could then only derive from exceptional factors , and the probability that such factors were present in all parts of a large region is close to zero . On the other hand ...
... less than 2 million inhabitants ) . Indeed , high per capita income could then only derive from exceptional factors , and the probability that such factors were present in all parts of a large region is close to zero . On the other hand ...
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... less accepted than ten to twenty years ago . But it is seldom realized how slow this growth really was . 5. A number of studies give a view of the traditional world as being little urbanized . Recent research has demonstrated that this ...
... less accepted than ten to twenty years ago . But it is seldom realized how slow this growth really was . 5. A number of studies give a view of the traditional world as being little urbanized . Recent research has demonstrated that this ...
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... less after the first development decade , during which the Third World economic per capita growth was of the order of 2 % . More important is the fact that the realization that growth was slow at the beginning of the take - off would ...
... less after the first development decade , during which the Third World economic per capita growth was of the order of 2 % . More important is the fact that the realization that growth was slow at the beginning of the take - off would ...
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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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