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This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
Author : Professor Michael Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134540302
This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
Author : Matthias Morys
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131741411X
The collapse of communism in Central, East and South-East Europe (CESEE) led to great hopes for the region and for Europe. A quarter of a century on, the picture is mixed: in many CESEE countries, the transformation process is incomplete, and the economic catch-up has taken longer than anticipated. The current situation has highlighted the need for a better understanding of the long-term political and economic implications of the Central, East and South-East European historical experience. This thematically organised text offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the economic history of CESEE from 1800 to the present day. Bringing together authors from both East and West, the book also draws on the cutting-edge research of a new generation of scholars from the CESEE region. Presenting a thoroughly modern overview of the history of the region, the text will be invaluable to students of economic history and CESEE area studies.
Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113467595X
This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfar
Author : Neil Charlesworth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Jan Luiten van Zanden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136454608
Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and independence period, making use of new theoretical insights from institutional economics and new growth theory. The book looks at the major themes of Indonesian history: colonial exploitation and the successes and limitations of the post 1900 welfare policies, the price of instability after 1945, and the economic miracle after 1967. The book not only discusses economic change and development – or the lack thereof – but also the institutional and socio-political structures that were behind these changes. It also presents a lot of new data on the changing welfare of the Indonesian population, on income distribution, and on the functioning of markets for rice, credit and labour. Concluding with a discussion on whether the poor profited from the economic changes, this book is a useful contribution to Southeast Asian Studies and International Economics.
Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2008-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400827817
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.
Author : Michael R. Palairet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521522564
A definitive economic history of the Balkans, making extensive use of native-language primary sources, first published in 1997.
Author : Rondo E. Cameron
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780415190114
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David S. Landes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521534024
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Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521036856
A comprehensive study of economic theory in relation to the development of nineteenth-century British theatre.