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How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World

By Nathan Rosenberg , L. E. Birdzell

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2008
ISBN
0786723483, 9780786723485
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
281 MB (294612231 bytes)
Pages
416\366
Time added
2019-07-04 18:06:06

Description

How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle of birth, hunger, hardship, and death? In this elegant synthesis of economic history, two scholars argue that it is the political pluralism and the flexibility of the West’s institutions—not corporate organization and mass production technology—that explain its unparalleled wealth.

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