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100 1  Allen, Robert C.,|d1947- 
245 10 Global economic history :|ba very short introduction /
       |cRobert C. Allen. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2011. 
300    xiv, 170 pages :|billustrations ;|c18 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Very short introductions ;|v282 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-162) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
648  0 Geschichte. 
648  7 Geschichte.|2swd 
650  0 Economic history. 
650  0 Economic indicators. 
650  7 Economic history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901974 
650  7 Economic indicators.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901996 
650 07 Wirtschaft.|0(DE-588)4066399-1|2gnd 
650 07 Wirtschaft.|0(DE-588c)4066399-1|2swd 
830  0 Very short introductions ;|v282. 
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