Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World

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University of Michigan Press, 1994 - Business & Economics - 483 pages
Comparing 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
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The PowerDiffusion Process
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Institutions and Economic Growth
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