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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... ideas . My economics professor at the Hochschule St Gallen , Switzerland , Walter Adolf Jöhr ( 1910-87 ) retained some old continental European ideas , and at Kress I met Fritz Redlich ( 1892-1978 ) , a surviving member of the German ...
... ideas of the past , however , is combined with very wide observations of the varieties of present realities . During my careers I have been ' on the job ' in forty - nine countries , on all inhabited continents , as well as having ...
... idea that technology is an important determinant for society is an old one , the discussion of the re- lationship ... ideas of stage theories are found in antiquity , both in Greece and in Rome . One may read Tacitus's ( c.AD 55-120 ) ...
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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