Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third WorldComparing the histories of Japan and northwestern Europe from the middle ages onward, explores the paths of social and political development in those two regions to isolate a linkage between economic development and the distribution of political power. Contrasts the Japan/Europe pattern with the histories of Africa, Asia except Japan, Latin America, and eastern and southern Europe. |
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Durable Economic Development | 1 |
The PowerDiffusion Process | 13 |
Institutions and Economic Growth | 25 |
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