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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... turning points . I felt it worth pointing out the latter because they can be just as misleading as myths . The other departure is reflected in the word ' minor ' in this part's title . I have put the word in quotation marks to draw the ...
... turning points . I felt it worth pointing out the latter because they can be just as misleading as myths . The other departure is reflected in the word ' minor ' in this part's title . I have put the word in quotation marks to draw the ...
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... turning point came earlier in the United States than in Europe : in the United States it had started at the end of ... turning points . Among the major consequences of the large increase in agricul- tural productivity is a rapid rise in ...
... turning point came earlier in the United States than in Europe : in the United States it had started at the end of ... turning points . Among the major consequences of the large increase in agricul- tural productivity is a rapid rise in ...
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... turning points in history ( the other being the Neolithic Age , which led to the birth of civilization ) , and in almost every aspect the nineteenth century marks the real transition between traditional societies and the modern world ...
... turning points in history ( the other being the Neolithic Age , which led to the birth of civilization ) , and in almost every aspect the nineteenth century marks the real transition between traditional societies and the modern world ...
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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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