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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... sugar imports . In the fifteenth century sugar was a luxury product in Europe . At that time in England sugar was twenty - nine times more expensive than butter , already an expensive product ; by the end of the sixteenth century this ...
... sugar imports . In the fifteenth century sugar was a luxury product in Europe . At that time in England sugar was twenty - nine times more expensive than butter , already an expensive product ; by the end of the sixteenth century this ...
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... sugar , which was , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , a major Third World export crop . Around 1830 sugar rep- resented almost 25 % of Third World exports and for Latin America this share was as much as 43 % . Sugar is the ...
... sugar , which was , at the beginning of the nineteenth century , a major Third World export crop . Around 1830 sugar rep- resented almost 25 % of Third World exports and for Latin America this share was as much as 43 % . Sugar is the ...
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... sugar ( 1,860,000 tons ) . Around 1900 the figures were 6,060,000 tons for beet sugar and 3,800,000 tons for cane sugar . Incidentally , it is interesting to note that sugar was one of the first important primary goods which was subject ...
... sugar ( 1,860,000 tons ) . Around 1900 the figures were 6,060,000 tons for beet sugar and 3,800,000 tons for cane sugar . Incidentally , it is interesting to note that sugar was one of the first important primary goods which was subject ...
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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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