How The West Grew Rich

How The West Grew Rich
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Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780786723485
ISBN-13 : 0786723483
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Book Synopsis How The West Grew Rich by : Nathan Rosenberg

Download or read book How The West Grew Rich written by Nathan Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the West--Europe, Canada, and the United States--escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle of birth, hunger, hardship, and death? In this elegant synthesis of economic history, two scholars argue that it is the political pluralism and the flexibility of the West's institutions--not corporate organization and mass production technology--that explain its unparalleled wealth.


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