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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... political sphere , implied the creation of a system of courts of law for the nonviolent settlement of disputes in the economic sphere ; it implied also the definition and protection of property rights , including limitations on political ...
... political sphere , implied the creation of a system of courts of law for the nonviolent settlement of disputes in the economic sphere ; it implied also the definition and protection of property rights , including limitations on political ...
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... political and economic spheres of human activity . 2 The widespread use of servile labor . 3 A high degree of self - sufficiency . These features were mutually reinforcing . The last two buttressed the force of custom , usage , and law ...
... political and economic spheres of human activity . 2 The widespread use of servile labor . 3 A high degree of self - sufficiency . These features were mutually reinforcing . The last two buttressed the force of custom , usage , and law ...
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... political sector , and democratic Western societies have turned to a version of interest group politics , in which the achievement of political power depends on the formation of a coalition large enough to vote itself the power to tax ...
... political sector , and democratic Western societies have turned to a version of interest group politics , in which the achievement of political power depends on the formation of a coalition large enough to vote itself the power to tax ...
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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