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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... Friedrich List committed suicide in 1846 , a few months after England had seem- ingly succeeded in convincing the rest of Europe to abandon its tariffs on industrial products by removing her own tariffs on agri- cultural products ...
... Friedrich List , were also the most eager advocates of free trade and globalization after all countries had industrialized . As early as the 1840s Friedrich List had a recipe for ' good globalization ' : 20 if free trade developed after ...
... Friedrich List ( 1789-1846 ) in Germany and Giuseppe Mazzini ( 1805–72 ) in Italy - were also very early proponents of a ' United States of Europe ' . At the time Germany and Italy were both laggards , each comprising an out- dated ...
Contents
Discovering Types of Economic Theories | 1 |
The Evolution of the Two Different Approaches | 21 |
How Rich Countries Got Rich | 71 |
Copyright | |
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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 |