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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... Plan was not a simple programme for transferring massive sums of money to struggling countries , but an explicit ... Morgenthau Plan like the one imple- mented in Germany in 1945. When it was clear that the Allies would win the Second ...
... Plan and a Morgenthau Plan . To return to the quote from Thomas Kuhn which opens Chapter 1 , the conceptual tools needed to differentiate the two plans are not part of the toolbox of standard growth theory . A country special- izing in ...
... Morgenthau Plan for the Third World Two major economic experiments took place in the late 1940s , from which the ... Morgenthau and Marshall Plans , however , are being forgotten . Politicians today abuse the concept of a Marshall Plan ...
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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