An Economic History of the World since 1400
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01K4ZMZJY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
the focus rarely shifts away from pitching great ideas against each other NJ Most popular economic history books tend to be about various ideologies and their founders/proponents. Even as they discuss the key economic events, the focus rarely shifts away from pitching great ideas against each other. This course does a little bit of that, but its value is in distilling the same events to provide the genesis of numerous economic facets of modern life; these are constructs that we take for granted but they are utterly artificial whose coming into being have been impacted societies for centuries as the best of scientific and other discov
What did the economies of Roosevelt's America and Hitler's Germany have in common? What does history tell us about how nations should dictate economic policy? Can we say that free trade is truly free? Marvel at just how much we still have to learn about the economic forces that have dictated our past - and that will dictate our future.. Professor Harreld has crafted a riveting, centuries-long story of power, glory, and ideology that reveals how, in step with history, economic ideas emerged, evolved, and thrived or died. Aimed at the layperson with only a cursory understanding of the field, An Economic History of the World since 1400