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Informationen zum Autor Gregory Ponthiere is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at the Hoover Chair in Economic and Social Ethics, Catholic University of Louvain. Klappentext "What can economic analysis teach us about the long period, those times whose duration is such that nothing (or almost nothing) can be treated as a constant- neither population, nor knowledge, nor political and economic institutions-? What concepts and tools can allow economists to think about the movements of the economy over a horizon of several centuries, or even millennia"-- Vorwort An introduction to the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the study of history as a succession of economic regimes. This non-technical introduction is accessible to undergraduate students in economics and other social sciences, and, as such, aims at becoming a building block for undergraduate courses about the economic history of societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Long Period: Some Milestones: 1. A Brief History of Long-run Economic Analysis; 2. Empirical Elements; Part II. Unified Growth Theory: Foundations: 3. The Stagnation Regime; 4. Economic Take-off; 5. Institutions and Distribution; 6. The Natural Environment; Part III. Unified Growth Theory: Microeconomics of Regime Shift: 7. Economic Growth and Education; 8. The Birth of Institutions; 9. Lifestyles and the Natural Environment; Conclusion. Continuity and Discontinuity in History.
