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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... European growth . Among the people who helped me then and on other occasions , my two co - editors , Higonnet and Roskovsky ; also Robert Fogel , Paul David , Rudolf Braun , Wolfram Fischer , Paul Bairoch , Joel Mokyr , Robert Allen ...
... European Civilization , " was held in June 1996 in Israel , under the sponsorship of the Yad Ha- Nadiv Rothschild Foundation ( Guy Stroumsa , coordinator ) , bringing some of the same people plus another team , medieval and other : Pa ...
... Europe ( " the West " ) take the lead in changing the world ? A historical approach does not ensure an answer ... Europeans , they say , were smarter , better organized , harder working ; the others were ig- norant , arrogant , lazy ...
... Europeans to epidemic plagues : they were not sufficiently exposed to pathogens to build up resistance . Even in winter , West European temperatures are kind . If one traces lines of equal temperature around the globe ( isotherms ) ...
... Europe . This privileged European climate was the gift of the large warm cur- rent that we know as the Gulf Stream , rising in tropical waters off Africa , working its way westward across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean , then ...
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 |