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Languages : en
Pages : 341
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The Birth of Western Economy
Author: The Birth of the Western Economy
Author: The Birth of the Western Economy
Author: Robert LatouchePublisher:
ISBN: 9780415286190
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Birth of Western Economy
Author: Robert LatoucheThe birth of Western economy
Author: Robert LatoucheThe Rise of the Western World
Author: Douglass C. NorthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107469430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.
The Birth of the Western Economy
Author: Robert LatouchePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415379946
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Birth of Western Economy
Author: Robert LatoucheGlobal Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Robert C. AllenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199596654
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
A Farewell to Alms
Author: Gregory ClarkPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.