The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

THE WEALTH —S AND POVERTY OF NATIONS WHY SOME ARE SO RICH AND SOME SO POOR DAVID S. LANDES ...

ISBN 0393-04017-8 USA $30. CAN. $39. F or the last six hundred years, the world's wealthiest economies have been mostly European ...

DAVID S. LANDKS is professor emeritus of history and economics at Harvard University and the author of Revolution in Time and Pr ...

"Truly wonderful. No question that this will establish David Landes as preeminent in his field and in his time." —John Kenneth G ...

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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor DAVID S. LANDES WWNORTON& COMPANY New York London ...

Copyright © 1998 by David S. Landes All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition For information ab ...

For my children and grandchildren, with love. ...

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... the causes of the wealth and poverty of nations—the grand object of all enquiries in Political Economy. —Malthus to Ricardo, ...

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Contents PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi ...

- 1. Nature's Inequalities INTRODUCTION xvii Answers to Geography: Europe and China European Exceptionalism: A Differen ...

Preface and Acknowledgments My aim in writing this book is to do world history. Not, however, in the multicultural, anthropologi ...

xii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Second, thanks largely to the sympathetic understanding of Dr. Al­ berta Arthurs, this work rece ...

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii government service; Rondo Cameron, lone crusader against the con- cept and term of Industrial R ...

xtv PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kristine Bruland and Maxine Berg; in 1996, too, at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan on ...

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XV Beales, Hrothgar John Habakkuk, Peter Mathias, Barry Supple, Berrick Saul, Charles Feinstein, Max ...

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