The Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson.

"Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the n...

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Group Author: Neal, Larry, 1941; Williamson, Jeffrey G., 1935
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Modern economic growth, defined as a sustained rise in per capita income (Kuznets 1966C001-025), has created higher levels of prosperity for many more people on earth than was ever thought possible before it began. Moreover, it began not so very long ago, perhaps as late as the middle of the nineteenth century and certainly not before the end of the seventeenth century"--
Carrier Form: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781107019638 (volume 1 : hardback)
9781107019645 (volume 2 : hardback)
110701963X (hardback)
1107019648
1107036941
9781107036949
Index Number: HB501
CLC: F119
F03
Call Number: F03/C178
Contents: The rise of capitalism : from ancient origins to 1848 --
Introduction /
Babylonia in the first millennium BCE--economic growth in times of empire /
Capitalism and the ancient Greek economy /
Re-constructing the Roman economy /
Trans-Asian trade, or the Silk Road deconstructed (antiquity, middle ages) /
China before capitalism /
Capitalism in India in the very long run /
Institutional change and economic development in the Middle East, 70
The spread of capitalism : from 1848 to the present --
Introduction : the spread of and resistance to global capitalism /
The spread of manufacturing /
Growth, specialization, and organization of world agriculture /
Technology and the spread of capitalism /
Spread of legal innovations defining private and public domains /
Firms and global capitalism /
Enterprise models : freestanding firms versus family pyramid