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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Myths and Paradoxes Paul Bairoch. 3 Was there Free Trade in the Rest of the World ? The European commercial expansion resulting from the Industrial Revolution had very different consequences on the trade policies of the rest of the world ...
Myths and Paradoxes Paul Bairoch. 3 Was there Free Trade in the Rest of the World ? The European commercial expansion resulting from the Industrial Revolution had very different consequences on the trade policies of the rest of the world ...
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... rest of this group ( Australia , Canada and New Zealand ) . As noted earlier , one should not forget that modern protectionism was born in the United States . In 1791 , Alexander Hamilton , the First Secretary of the Treasury ( between ...
... rest of this group ( Australia , Canada and New Zealand ) . As noted earlier , one should not forget that modern protectionism was born in the United States . In 1791 , Alexander Hamilton , the First Secretary of the Treasury ( between ...
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... rest of the Third World . In Latin America , GNP per capita exceeded that of the rest of the Third World market economies by 170 % by 1950 , but this figure was reduced to 100 % 40 years later . Without giving too much significance to ...
... rest of the Third World . In Latin America , GNP per capita exceeded that of the rest of the Third World market economies by 170 % by 1950 , but this figure was reduced to 100 % 40 years later . Without giving too much significance to ...
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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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