How The West Grew RichBasic Books, 1986 M02 6 - 353 páginas Rosenberg and Birdzell examine how the West--Europe, Canada, and the United States--escaped from poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being. They present an interpretative study of the economic development of the Western world since the Middle Ages and argue that the political pluralism and flexibility of the West's institutions explain its prosperity and wealth. The authors demonstrate that the break-up of centralized political and religious controls encouraged the expansion of trade and the growth of urban culture, along with the scientific, cultural, and political freedom that was necessary to feed economic and technological innovations. ISBN 0-465-03108-0 : $19.95. |
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... Corporations By the early decades of the nineteenth century , chartered trading companies had declined in importance , but another form of corporation was engaged in building turnpikes , bridges , canals , and railroads and , at least ...
... Corporations By the early decades of the nineteenth century , chartered trading companies had declined in importance , but another form of corporation was engaged in building turnpikes , bridges , canals , and railroads and , at least ...
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... corporations , which he defined as corporations with $ 250 million or more in assets ( in 1971 dollars ) . He first classified the large corporations of 1929 and then the large corporations of 1971. The 1929 list nearly coincided with ...
... corporations , which he defined as corporations with $ 250 million or more in assets ( in 1971 dollars ) . He first classified the large corporations of 1929 and then the large corporations of 1971. The 1929 list nearly coincided with ...
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... corporations ' assets in 1971 were concentrated in twenty of the fifty - four categories . The remaining 13.4 percent was distributed over thirty categories . In the remaining four categories , there were no large corporations . Eleven ...
... corporations ' assets in 1971 were concentrated in twenty of the fifty - four categories . The remaining 13.4 percent was distributed over thirty categories . In the remaining four categories , there were no large corporations . Eleven ...
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The Middle Ages | 37 |
The Growth of Trade to 1750 | 71 |
The Evolution of Institutions Favorable to Commerce | 113 |
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How The West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation Of The Industrial World Nathan Rosenberg,L. E., Jr. Birdzell Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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Adam Smith advances advantage agricultural American artisan authority became capital capital accumulation capitalist charters commercial companies competition corporations costs countries decline early Economic History economic organization economic sphere effect employees England Europe European exchange expansion experiment explanation factory system Fernand Braudel feudal fifteenth century firms guilds hierarchy Ibid important improvements incorporation increase individual Industrial Revolution innovation institutions interest investment investors labor land large numbers less manor manorial system manufacturing Marx medieval merchant class merger Middle Ages military modern monopoly nineteenth century oligopoly organizational output ownership period population power looms production profits Protestantism putting-out system R. H. Tawney revenues rise risk scientific sector shares sixteenth social society steam engine steel supply textile towns trade transportation University Press urban villeins wealth West West's Western economic growth Western economies Western growth workers