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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... increased business and declining prices of merchandise . The first of the two technological developments was an enormous increase in the use of steam and water power in factory production and the application of steam power to land and ...
... increased business and declining prices of merchandise . The first of the two technological developments was an enormous increase in the use of steam and water power in factory production and the application of steam power to land and ...
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... increase in output . Imports of raw cotton into England are perhaps the best available index of the physical increase in the output of cotton textiles . From 1791 to 1795 , the British textile industry imported an average of slightly ...
... increase in output . Imports of raw cotton into England are perhaps the best available index of the physical increase in the output of cotton textiles . From 1791 to 1795 , the British textile industry imported an average of slightly ...
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... increase in output implies an increase in working capital and fixed capital , or else in productivity . But the causal link is between the present rate of production and the past rate of capital accumulation . It is entirely possible ...
... increase in output implies an increase in working capital and fixed capital , or else in productivity . But the causal link is between the present rate of production and the past rate of capital accumulation . It is entirely possible ...
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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 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 medieval merchant class merger Middle Ages military modern monopoly Nathan Rosenberg 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 ships sixteenth social society steam engine supply textile towns trade transportation University Press urban villeins wealth West West's Western economic growth Western economies Western growth workers