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David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement.
Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused on work and knowledge, which led to increased productivity, the creation of new technologies, and the pursuit of change. Europe's key advantage lay in invention and know-how, as applied in war, transportation, generation of power, and skill in metalwork. Even such now banal inventions as eyeglasses and the clock were, in their day, powerful levers that tipped the balance of world economic power.
Today's new economic winners are following much the same roads to power, while the laggards have somehow failed to duplicate this crucial formula for success. The key to relieving much of the world's poverty lies in understanding the lessons history has to teach us - lessons uniquely imparted in this towering work of history.
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Economic development, Economic history, History, International economic relations, National income, Poverty, Regional economic disparities, Social aspects, Social aspects of Economic development, Wealth, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Wealth -- Europe -- History, Wealth -- History, Poverty -- Europe -- History, Poverty -- History, Regional economic disparities -- History, Economic development -- Social aspects, Pobreza, Armoede, Riqueza, Sociaal-economische situatie, Regionale verschillen, História econômica, Economische ongelijkheid, Rijkdom, 15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general, Aspect social, Histoire économique, Développement économique, Richesse, Histoire, Pauvreté, Economic development, social aspects, Europe, economic conditions, New York Times reviewed, Wealth--history, Wealth--europe--history, Poverty--history, Poverty--europe--history, Regional economic disparities--history, Economic development--social aspects, Hc240.z9 w45 1999, 330.1/6Places
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-635) and index.
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