The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So PoorNew York Times Bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades. |
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... populations have been converging with those of kinder , richer climes . Thus in 1992 a baby born in a low - income ... ( population 828 million ) could look forward to seventy - seven years . This difference ( 37.5 percent longer ) , not ...
... population , it can do so no longer . Foreign aid is primarily food aid . People there operate at a fraction of their potential . Government cannot cope . In view of these stubborn natural burdens , the amazing thing is that Africans ...
... populations and the surpluses that support urban centers of cultural exchange and development . Even so , most of the forest remained , even gaining when population shrank in the cen- turies following the fall of Rome . The folk memory ...
... population densities were higher than those in warm irrigation societies . The gains from animal fertilizer , plowing ( which brings nutrients up from below ) , and fallow could not match the fertile silt of the Nile , the Euphrates ...
... population ; the Euro- peans focused on small households and strategies of undivided inher- itance and interfamilial ... populations of Asia . Such peasant throngs , moreover , tempted Asian rulers to undertake ostentatious projects ...
Contents
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Eastward Ho | 79 |
From Discoveries to Empire | 99 |
Bittersweet Isles | 113 |
The Wealth of Knowledge | 276 |
Frontiers | 292 |
The South American Way | 310 |
Stasis and Retreat | 335 |
And the Last Shall Be First | 350 |
The Meiji Restoration | 371 |
History Gone Wrong? | 392 |
Empire and After | 422 |
Empire in the East | 125 |
For Love of Gain | 137 |
Golconda | 150 |
The Balance Sheet of Empire | 168 |
The Nature of Industrial Revolution | 186 |
Why Europe? Why Then? | 200 |
Britain and the Others | 213 |
Pursuit of Albion | 231 |
You Need Money to Make Money | 256 |
Loss of Leadership | 442 |
Winners and | 465 |
Losers | 491 |
How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going? | 512 |
EPILOGUE 1999 | 525 |
NOTES | 533 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 575 |
INDEX | 645 |