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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... mechanisms that create wealth and poverty , creating a framework in which to discuss how extreme poverty in your countries might be addressed . Understanding the mechanisms at work makes it possible to open up a debate , and to find ...
... mechanisms of wealth and poverty had , during several historical periods , been much better understood than they are today . My 1980 Ph.D. thesis attempted to check the validity of Antonio Serra's seventeenth - century theory of ...
... mechanisms for creating virtuous circles harnessed by the Marshall Plan had , however , been identified by Antonio Serra more than three hundred years earlier . The productive structures of today's developing countries have , via the ...
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 |