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

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  - 1. Nature's Inequalities INTRODUCTION xvii

1. Answers to Geography: Europe and China

1. European Exceptionalism: A Different Path

1. The Invention of Invention

1. The Great Opening

1. Eastward Ho!

1. From Discoveries to Empire

1. Bittersweet Isles

1. Empire in the East

1. For Love of Gain

1. Golconda
- 1. Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire X CONTENTS
- 1. The Nature of Industrial Revolution
- 1. Why Europe? Why Then?
- 1. Britain and the Others

1. Pursuit of Albion
- 1. You Need Money to Make Money
- 1. The Wealth of Knowledge
- 1. Frontiers

1. The South American Way

1. Celestial Empire: Stasis and Retreat

1. Japan: And the Last Shall Be First

1. The Meiji Restoration

1. History Gone Wrong?

1. Empire and After

1. Loss of Leadership

1. Winners and

1. Losers

1. How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?
  - NOTES
  - BIBLIOGRAPHY
  - INDEX

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