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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... noted that another fact has contributed to our negative misconception of commercial policies in the 1920s , i.e. dif- ferences in the actions taken after each of the two world wars . As Kindleberger noted in his introduction to his ...
... noted that another fact has contributed to our negative misconception of commercial policies in the 1920s , i.e. dif- ferences in the actions taken after each of the two world wars . As Kindleberger noted in his introduction to his ...
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... noted , we have not mentioned the two examples of better performance than that of Germany in the 1930s : Japan and the USSR . The Japanese success was the result of early economic development and military spending in the 1937-8 period ...
... noted , we have not mentioned the two examples of better performance than that of Germany in the 1930s : Japan and the USSR . The Japanese success was the result of early economic development and military spending in the 1937-8 period ...
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... noted that the League of Nations never presented their figures as valid indices for measuring international terms of trade , but they were quoted as such in many studies and so pseudo - facts became dogma . The dogma was so widespread ...
... noted that the League of Nations never presented their figures as valid indices for measuring international terms of trade , but they were quoted as such in many studies and so pseudo - facts became dogma . The dogma was so widespread ...
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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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