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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... economic thought is referred to as the Physiocrats ( indicating ' rule of ... policy for long , and where they did as in France - their policies created ... policy terms that is not reflected in today's economics textbooks . The history ...
... policy . Chapter 2 traces the evolution of today's canonical sequence of authors from Physiocracy via Adam Smith and David Ricardo to standard ... economic policies - the knowledge of which policies created successful Introduction xxiii.
... economic policy was based on a simple rule : import of raw materials and export of industrial products . To be wealthy , countries like England and France would have to emulate and copy the economic structures of Venice and Holland ...
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 |