Escaping poverty the origins of modern economic growth
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Göttingen :
V&R unipress
2013
[2013] |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425214206719 |
| Sumario: | One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and than the rest of the world? Many prominent scholars discussed this question and came up with many different answers. This book provides a systematic analysis of the most important of those answers by means of an analysis of possible explanations in terms of natural resources, labour, capital, the divi |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (516 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783737001687 9783847001683 |
