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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... century . All this was the motivation of the subject of my Schumpeter lecture and of this book . The relative ... nineteenth century and makes free trade almost into a sacred doctrine . This group either ignores or forgets the fact that ...
... century . All this was the motivation of the subject of my Schumpeter lecture and of this book . The relative ... nineteenth century and makes free trade almost into a sacred doctrine . This group either ignores or forgets the fact that ...
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... nineteenth century . As an approximate indication we can put forward a 10-20 % price decline for manufactured goods between 1830 and 1910 , which means that the terms of trade for sugar relative to manufactured goods deteriorated by 25 ...
... nineteenth century . As an approximate indication we can put forward a 10-20 % price decline for manufactured goods between 1830 and 1910 , which means that the terms of trade for sugar relative to manufactured goods deteriorated by 25 ...
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... centuries , the rate of economic growth achieved during the nineteenth century represented a large step forward . Even if we limit ourselves to Europe , which between 1500 and 1800 was on an upward trend , the annual rate of per capita ...
... centuries , the rate of economic growth achieved during the nineteenth century represented a large step forward . Even if we limit ourselves to Europe , which between 1500 and 1800 was on an upward trend , the annual rate of per capita ...
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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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