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100 1 _aReinert, Erik S.,
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245 1 0 _aHow rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor /
_cErik S. Reinert.
260 _aLondon :
_bConstable,
_c2007.
300 _axxix, 365 p. :
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_c24 cm.
336 _atext
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365 _bRs. 1665.00
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [336]-356) and index.
505 _a1. Discovering types of economic theories - 2. The evolution of the two different approaches - 3. Emulation : how rich countries got rich - 4. Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against - 5. Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer - 6. Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history - 7. Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea - 8. 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries - App. I. David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage in international trade - App. II. Two different ways of understanding the economic world and the wealth and poverty of nations - App. III. Frank Graham's theory of uneven development - App. IV. Two ideal types of protectionism compared - App. V. Philipp von Hornigk's nine points on how to emulate the rich countries (1684) - App. VI. The quality index of economic activities - Notes - Bibliographical - Index.
520 _aA book aimed at a politically aware and progressively minded readership, How Rich Countries Got Rich... will bury economic orthodoxy once and for all and open up the debate on why free trade is not the best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.
650 0 _aEconomic history.
650 0 _aEconomic development
_xHistory.
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