by Nathan Rosenberg | June 1, 1987 | Business & Money
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 organizati...
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.
ISBN #
0465031099
Page count
368 pages
Publication Date
June 1, 1987
Publisher
Basic Books
Category
Non-Fiction
Genre
Amazon Star Rating
4.5
Amazon Ratings Count
26 ratings
Amazon Last Rating Data Date
August 9, 2021
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