Escaping poverty : the origins of modern economic growth /

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and th...

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Main Author: Vries, P. H. H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Goettingen : [Vienna] : V & R Unipress ; Vienna University Press, ©2013.
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Online Access:CONNECT