How Rich Countries Got Rich and why Poor Countries Stay PoorConstable, 2007 - 365 pages
Reinert presents a strongly revisionist history of economics and shows how the discipline has long been torn between the continental Renaissance tradition on one hand and the free market theories of English and later American economics on the other. He argues that our economies were founded on protectionism and state activism and could only later afford the luxury of free trade. When our leaders come to lecture poor countries on the right road to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the real history of mass affluence. |
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... Europe were as late as in 1700.16 It is clear that Europe and the West's view of the rest of the world has for a long time been persistently filtered through Eurocentric prejudice against other peoples and their cultures.17 Recently ...
... Europe was continuously defending its eastern and southern frontiers against Mongols and against Islam , 19 partly , of course , as a result of Europe's own aggression . The Mongol invasion had reached the Adriatic coast in Dalmatia and ...
... Europe after the Second World War , we find that this type of economic understanding was still present . After the war , US industry was vastly superior to the industry of Europe . Yet nobody suggested that Europe should follow its own ...
Contents
Discovering Types of Economic Theories | 1 |
The Evolution of the Two Different Approaches | 21 |
How Rich Countries Got Rich | 71 |
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How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor Erik S Reinert Limited preview - 2019 |
How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor Erik S. Reinert No preview available - 2019 |