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Author Allen, Robert C., 1947-

Title Global economic history : a very short introduction / Robert C. Allen.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.9 ALLEN    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 170 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series Very short introductions ; 282
Very short introductions ; 282.
Contents The great divergence -- The rise of the West -- The Industrial Revolution -- The ascent of the rich -- The great empires -- The Americas -- Africa -- The standard model and late industrialization -- Big Push industrialization.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and index.
Summary Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, global income differences were small, but disparities have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen shows how the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. Allen shows how the industrial revolution was Britain's path-breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations, pursuing four polices--creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, creating banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and promoting mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. A few countries--Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China--have caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through coordinated investment. -- Book Description.
Subject Economic history.
Economic indicators.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Economic indicators. (OCoLC)fst00901996
Wirtschaft. (DE-588)4066399-1
Wirtschaft. (DE-588c)4066399-1
Chronological Term Geschichte.
Geschichte.
ISBN 9780199596652
0199596654
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