| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Larry Neal -- Babylonia in the first millennium bce -- Capitalism and the ancient Greek economy / Alain Bresson -- Re-constructing the Roman economy / Willem M. Jongman -- Trans-Asian trade, or the Silk Road deconstructed (antiquity, middle ages) / Étienne de la Vaissière -- China before capitalism / R.B. Wong -- Capitalism in India in the very long run / Tirthankar Roy -- Institutional change and economic development in the Middle East, 700-1800 / Şevket Pamuk -- Markets and coercion in medieval Europe / Karl Gunnar Persson -- The via italiana to capitalism / Luciano Pezzolo -- The Low Countries / Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker -- The formation of states and transitions to modern economies / Patrick Karl O'Brien -- Capitalism and dependency in Latin America / Richard Salvucci -- The emergence of African capitalism / Morten Jerven -- Native Americans and exchange / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis -- British and European industrialization / C. Knick Harley -- America / Jeremy Atack -- The political economy of rising capitalism / José Luís Cardoso |
| Summary |
"Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the nineteenth century and certainly not before the end of the seventeenth century." |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2020) |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- History
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Economic history.
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Capitalism
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Economic history
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neal, Larry, 1941- editor.
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Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781139095099 |
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1139095099 |
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