The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
YOU NEED MONEY TO MAKE MONEY^275 mobilization of capital. He distinguished three levels: (1) a country with lots of private weal ...
18. The Wealth of Knowledge i nstitutions and culture first; money next; but from the beginning and increasingly, the payoff was ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^277 Sheffield and the Northeast. His memoranda, later published, still make a valuable source of informa ...
(^278) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS if possible. Eventually he succeeded and thought himself the patriot as well as the sma ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^279 crecy, they sent the blueprints to the United States—to no avail. Not until a team of workmen went o ...
(^280) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS new employers. No matter. His son-in-law set up as a machine builder, and when in 1807 ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^281 British expats were not alone. The French imported Germans with metallurgical skills; the Russians b ...
(^282) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS So much for diffusion. More important for follower countries in the long run were schoo ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^283 branches: chemicals in Lyons, watchmaking in Besançon, textiles in Mulhouse. Some of this aimed to m ...
(^284) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS uses for waste products (thus coal gas for illumination), sometimes in response to laws ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^285 traordinary cluster of innovations that made the Second Industrial Rev olution so important—the use ...
(^286) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Another way was to remove the carbon to get wrought iron, and then add carbon to get st ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^287 product. No go. The biggest push came after Gabriel Jars's English trip of 1765. Jars himself set ou ...
(^288) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS "marking time." Announcement after announcement of success had proved false. Not that t ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^289 finding a way to synthesize quinine, and Perkin took the problem home with him to a litde laboratory ...
(^290) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS based heavy-chemical industry producing alkalis, acids, and salt. Then, it had all the ...
THE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE^291 the Polytechnic) in Zurich, which took its departure from naphthalene, then an almost worthless by-p ...
19. Frontiers I n 1700, product per head in Mexico was worth about 450 U.S. 1985 dollars; in the colonies that would become the ...
FRONTIERS^293 withdrawn after the failed second siege of Vienna (1685). Half a cen tury later, the Russians opened the great Uk ...
(^294) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The pursuit of this strategy by a number of fledgling economies has led to a staples th ...
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