The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So PoorW. W. Norton & Company, 17 mei 1999 - 688 pagina's New 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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... better . I want to give special thanks to my extraordinary editor , Edwin Barber , who not only challenged and improved the text but taught me a few things about writing . It's never too late to learn . Finally , I want to thank my wife ...
... better , more efficacious medicine - the treatment of illness and repair of injury - is only part of the story . Much of the increased life expectancy of these years has come from gains in prevention , cleaner living rather than better ...
... better nu- trition . This owed much to increases in food supply , even more to bet- ter , faster transport . Famines , often the product of local shortages , became rarer ; diet grew more varied and richer in animal protein . These ...
... . The gains of one year are canceled by the losses of the next : schistosomiasis is still with us . It was even deadlier in the past . Better known is trypanosomiasis - a family of illnesses that 8 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS.
David S. Landes. Better known is trypanosomiasis - a family of illnesses that includes nagana ( an animal disease ) , sleeping sickness , and in South America Chagas ' disease . The source of these maladies is trypanosomes , para- sitic ...
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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 |