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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... strategic geographic position for maritime purposes , and the scarcity of arable land . In other words , the development strategy of Europe became one of benchmarking and emulation . Appendix V sets out the nine - point strategy of ...
... strategy - probably too protectionist - and were now ready to ' graduate ' to the interna- tional marketplace in order to reap the benefits from freer trade . Rhetoric also became important . Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's strategy ...
... strategy for Austria , the book went through sixteen editions , remaining continuously in print for more than one hundred years . In the nine points above , Hörnigk summarizes the strategy . On its hundredth anniversary in 1784 the book ...
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 |