The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
EMPIRE AND AFTER^435 All of these trade effects depended on the nature of colonial rule. Some masters were richer and more ambit ...
(^436) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS new nations saw these artificial boundaries as sacred, for fear of what might replace t ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^437 History suggests that tutelage can be a school. Of course, a lot de pends on the teacher. Some imperial na ...
(^438) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS [Japan] was as responsible in its policies toward its colonial populations ... as was B ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^439 against the Afrikaners (1899-1902)—gave arguments to anti- imperialist liberal and radical writers and poli ...
(^440) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS settlement, lands of opportunity for Westerners seeking to start over or get away. Some ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^441 Their departure did not leave the Algerians bereft. They had their land back; the Christians (and Jews) wer ...
26. Loss of Leadership T he market is supposed to be a level place of combat, often (usu ally) peaceful. Not that the players w ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^443 the latter seventeenth century pointed to Holland as exemplar and ad versary; when French writers of the ...
(^444) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Smith, low profits were "the natural effect of prosperity," and Dutch merchants were su ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^445 bacco processing in Amsterdam were declining even before midcen- tury. An index of industrial production ...
(^446) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS under the burden of taxes, key industries had migrated to cheaper lands, and businessme ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^447 And another: The Dutch merchant seemed to be dozing off on the soft cushions of for merly gathered riche ...
(^448) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ture. Soon Dutch income, never far behind, converged with that of the European leaders. ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^449 After 1815 the British, sure of their hegemony, began abolishing the restrictions introduced in an earlie ...
(^450) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Serious unease set in toward the end of the century. It was linked to political changes ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^451 have shriveled. Also it has suffered relative decline: other countries, once poorer, have passed it by an ...
(^452) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS lands to watch matches in Milan and find Italians living better and more modern than th ...
LOSS OF LEADERSHIP^453 economy, smiting the heretics during the business crisis of the mid- 18808: Freedom of trade may be regar ...
(^454) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS dian terms, a pound's worth of port wine equaled a pound's worth of machine-spun cotton ...
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