The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.
Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths. Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths--paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.
Автор: Wallerstein Immanuel Название: Modern World-System ISBN: 0520267575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520267572 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 32730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce.
Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers' complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black.
The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement's historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.
--Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool, author of Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain "Reading Religion"
Автор: De Vroey Название: A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond ISBN: 1107584949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107584945 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 43290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes`s General Theory to the present, especially the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era. It also examines a few selected works aimed at presenting alternatives to Lucasian macroeconomics.
Автор: You-il Lee, John Benson, Ying Zhu, Chang-Jae Lee, Название: Political Economy of New Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Dynamics and Contradictions ISBN: 113893898X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138938984 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 103610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The book is the first attempt to offer a holistic and integrated exploration of the political-economic framework underpinning economic regionalism. In doing so it provides a much-needed contribution to the literature on international political economy, international relations and Asian political economy in relation to economic regionalism.
Автор: Painceira J.P. Название: Financialisation in Emerging Economies: Changes in Central Banking ISBN: 1138947113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138947115 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on Marxist Political Economy, this book studies the trends towards financialisation in emerging economies, focusing on the effects of the reserve accumulation in their international and domestic spheres.
Автор: Philip Hanson Название: The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy: An Economic History of theUSSR 1945 - 1991 ISBN: 0582299586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582299580 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 54090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Combining skilful economic, political and social analysis, this text provides a fascinating insight into the decline of the Soviet Union.
Автор: Niti Mehta, Anita Arya Название: Role of Public Policy in Development Process: Emerging Socioeconomic Scenario in the Indian Economy ISBN: 933270421X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789332704213 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 69300.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: What should be the contours of public policy for crucial sectors in the Indian context? The real debate today is about finding the right balance between market forces and government for Pareto efficiency. Stiglitz posited “that government could potentially almost always improve upon the market’s resource allocation.” In reality, besides the institutional inertia, fragmented design and action often impedes execution of rational policy. The lack of non-governmental inputs, absence of debate and systematic analysis prior to policy making results in ineffective policy formulation and action, obstructing the process of economic development. The study of public policy in commodity production (agriculture, industry), as well as tertiary sectors (services, trade and transport) is important to arrive at efficient and people friendly governance structures.
The collection of papers in the present volume, attempt at the development of an analytical framework for the formulation of development policy, bearing on crucial segments of the economy and society mainly, agriculture sector, industrial development, employment and entrepreneurship, urbanisation, weaker sections, and governance issues.
Nineteen chapters comprising the volume are organised under four sections: Section 1 Issues in Agriculture Sector; Section 2 Industrial Development, Employment and Entrepreneurship; Section 3 Issues in Sustainable Urbanisation; Section 4 Governance Structure and Development Outcomes.
The papers appearing in the volume were presented at a seminar funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
Автор: Khan, B. Zorina, Название: Inventing ideas : ISBN: 0190936088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190936082 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on original archival research, Inventing Ideas sheds light on the origins of the knowledge economy through empirical analysis of over one hundred thousand inventors and innovations in Britain, France, and the United States during the first and second industrial revolutions.
Автор: Kenneth D. Garbade Название: After the Accord: A History of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations, the US Government Securities Market, and Treasury Debt Management from 1951 to 1979 ISBN: 1108839894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108839891 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 120390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Following the end of World War II and the resumption of peacetime economic activity, the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury had to rebuild the machinery of monetary and debt management operations. This book explains their initial thinking and explores how they reacted to subsequent challenges.
Автор: Metin Tas, Adnan Gercek Название: Critical Debates in Public Finance ISBN: 3631810741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631810743 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 65310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book examines the main issues discussed in the field of public finance. It covers critical debates such as revenue forecasting models, the taxation of sharing economy, tax incentives to green bonds, tax literacy, collective investment institutions, digitalization of tax administration, pharmaceutical spending, tax expenditures, Armey Curve, Okun’s law, private educational institutions, and taxation of artificial intelligence. The book consists of twelve chapters on "controversial issues in the public finance" mentioned above.
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