Favorites of Fortune :Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

Favorites of Fortune

Favorites of Fortune :Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

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A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth. Their explanations consider the factors of technology, entrepreneurialism, and paths to economic growth, but each reflects an ideological wave of explanation that has marked the last two hundred years.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780674295216
ISBN10 0674295218
Number Of Pages 576
Item Weight 780 g
Publisher / Reseller Harvard University Press
Format paperback
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A stimulating and fascinating volume that should be in the library of anyone interested in economic history or technology. -- John Vincent Nye * Journal of Evolutionary Economics *
A most important book...[It] contains a conspectus of the variety of work that goes into our studies nowadays: biometrics and cliometrics; theory and a review of theory; broad sweeps of generalizations, detailed research on a micro scale, and international comparison; some sociology; and some institutional politics...A rich offering. -- Sidney Pollard * Journal of Economic History *

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Author's Bio

Patrice Higonnet is Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University. David S. Landes was Coolidge Professor of History and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University, and the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Henry Rosovsky was the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.

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