The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe - 1: Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700-1870

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and a Co-ordinator of the Economic History Initiative at CEPR. His recent publications include The Economics of World War I (2005, as co-editor) and Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000: Britain in International Perspective (2006). Klappentext Surveying the transition to modern economic growth since 1700, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework. Zusammenfassung Setting European economic development within a unified! comparative and genuinely pan-European framework! this textbook surveys the transition to modern economic growth since 1700. Leading authors cover the major themes of modern economic history and compare economic development across countries in a clear and comprehensible way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Aggregate Growth and Cycles: 1. Understanding growth in Europe, 1700-1870: theory and evidence Joel Mokyr and Hans-Joachim Voth; 2. The demographic transition and human capital George Alter and Gregory Clark; 3. State and private institutions Dan Bogart, Mauricio Drelichman, Oscar Gelderblom and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; 4. Trade and empire Kevin H. O'Rourke, Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Guillaume Daudin; 5. Business cycles Lee Craig and Concepción García-Iglesias; Part II. Sectoral Analysis: 6. Agriculture Tracy Dennison and James Simpson; 7. Industry Stephen Broadberry, Rainer Fremdling and Peter Solar; 8. The services sector Regina Grafe, Larry Neal and Richard W. Unger; Part III. Living Standards: 9. Standards of living ¿evket Pamuk and Jan Luiten Van Zanden; 10. Urbanization Paolo Malanima; 11. Europe in an Asian mirror: the Great Divergence Bishnupriya Gupta and Debin Ma.

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• Authors: Stephen Broadberry, Stephen (University of Warwick) Broadberry, Stephen O''rourke Broadberry, O&apos, Kevin O'Rourke, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Kevin H. (Trinity College O'Rourke, Kevin H. Rourke
• Assisted by: Stephen Broadberry (Editor), Kevin H. O'Rourke (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521708388
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70838-8
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 247 mm x 16 mm
• Sets: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe; The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
• Series: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe; Cambridge Economic History of; The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book