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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... major bias in the League of Nations world trade price indices derives from the fact that they used British price indices only , and that three - quarters of the prices in the British indices are import prices . Also measured are not ...
... major bias in the League of Nations world trade price indices derives from the fact that they used British price indices only , and that three - quarters of the prices in the British indices are import prices . Also measured are not ...
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... major cause of the slowdown in the economy was the decline in rural income due to a fall in agricultural prices caused by the influx of imported cereals and not by imports of manufactured goods to Continental Europe . One of the reasons ...
... major cause of the slowdown in the economy was the decline in rural income due to a fall in agricultural prices caused by the influx of imported cereals and not by imports of manufactured goods to Continental Europe . One of the reasons ...
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... major myths concerning the historical roots of underdevelopment and the actual situation in the Third World , and ... major factor in economic development , failure to do so is certainly a major handicap to this development . 4. Exports ...
... major myths concerning the historical roots of underdevelopment and the actual situation in the Third World , and ... major factor in economic development , failure to do so is certainly a major handicap to this development . 4. Exports ...
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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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