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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... limited . By 1970 these represented a volume some twenty times smaller than the comparable figure for Western developed countries . Let us move on to the share of the production of manufactured goods exported to the Third World in the ...
... limited . By 1970 these represented a volume some twenty times smaller than the comparable figure for Western developed countries . Let us move on to the share of the production of manufactured goods exported to the Third World in the ...
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... limited economic relations with its colonies , and could therefore sustain ( or need ) only a relatively limited colonial empire . ' Traditional ' Europe implies a low standard of living and a level of per capita consumption close to ...
... limited economic relations with its colonies , and could therefore sustain ( or need ) only a relatively limited colonial empire . ' Traditional ' Europe implies a low standard of living and a level of per capita consumption close to ...
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... limited positive impact of colonization on the West's economic development may lead the reader to conclude that since , on the one hand , there were no important gains , on the other , the costs were also limited . But the economy is ...
... limited positive impact of colonization on the West's economic development may lead the reader to conclude that since , on the one hand , there were no important gains , on the other , the costs were also limited . But the economy is ...
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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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