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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... relative importance of the rest of the world to the supply of ores to the Western developed countries showed , as with energy , a moderately declining trend . Before dealing with the other raw materials , especially textiles , we should ...
... relative importance of the rest of the world to the supply of ores to the Western developed countries showed , as with energy , a moderately declining trend . Before dealing with the other raw materials , especially textiles , we should ...
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... relative importance of trade flows between the two . In any case , the Communist countries represented only 10 % of world trade . The share of the Third World in Western developed countries ' exports ( see Table 6.1 ) , which had ...
... relative importance of trade flows between the two . In any case , the Communist countries represented only 10 % of world trade . The share of the Third World in Western developed countries ' exports ( see Table 6.1 ) , which had ...
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... Relative Prices of Exports and Imports of Underdeveloped Countries ( New York , 1949 ) . This was a widely used study in the 1950s and was in fact one of the first to address this important question . But this , in fact , only repeated ...
... Relative Prices of Exports and Imports of Underdeveloped Countries ( New York , 1949 ) . This was a widely used study in the 1950s and was in fact one of the first to address this important question . But this , in fact , only repeated ...
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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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