Economics and world history : myths and paradoxes /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- The 1929 crash and the Great Depression
- Was there a golden era of European free trade?
- Was there free trade in the rest of the world?
- Has protectionism always had a negative impact ?
- Were Third-World raw materials central to western industrialization?
- Were colonial outlets crucial to western industries?
- Was colonialism important in triggering the industrial revolution?
- The balance sheet of colonialism
- Was there a large income differential before modern development?
- A long-term deterioration in the terms of trade?
- The more tropical products exported, the more food imported?
- Population growth : the more, the better?
- Some less important myths
- Generally unnoticed historical turning points
- The paradox of economic history or the absence of absolute economic laws