The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^215 European countries were trying to do the same, but nowhere were these improvements so widespread and ...
BRITAIN ON THE WAY TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION These canals responded to the need for cheap transport from mines to urban centers a ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^217 them modern) that we take them for granted. They represent, how ever, a big departure from older nor ...
(^218) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Secure rights of personal liberty—secure them against both the abuses of tyranny and p ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^219 the virtues that have promoted economic and material progress. They represent a marked deviation from ...
(^220) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS parative advantage. With mixed effect. Some found themselves im poverished, but on bal ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^221 all westerners may have looked alike, but Europeans saw the differ ences. Visitors exclaimed about t ...
(^222) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The contribution of high consumption to technological progress struck contemporaries, a ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS 223 wicked stepmother is now a cunning peddler (as she becomes in the tale), and the princess is an adult ...
(^224) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The Value of Time The Britain of the Industrial Revolution had preserved the structures ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^225 France too was changing. As one coaching service put it in 1834 (on the eve of the railway age): "gre ...
(^226) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS capital to the weavers against the promise of delivery; and the European traders and ch ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^227 accomplish anything by machinery that can be performed by human labour."^27 One reason for this "gene ...
(^228) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS keep large stocks and time their auction sales to match fluctations in European demand. ...
BRITAIN AND THE OTHERS^229 a proper thread; and that iron nails were rare. Their absence made a difference in shipbuilding. Euro ...
230 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Part of the explanation lies in the assignment of such tasks in Asia to women and childre ...
Pursuit of Albion W hen I was a student I learned that homo sapiens is an animal species of single origin: all humans today, of ...
(^232) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Table 16.1. Estimates of Real GNP per Capita for Selected Countries (in 1960 $ U.S.) 18 ...
PURSUIT OF ALBION 233 trade Lyons silks and Bordeaux wines and come out the better for the trade.^1 That is the theory. The stat ...
(^234) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS [dorures], its silks, its linens; because, since the English don't make these things, t ...
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