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020 _a9781845 298746
_qPaperback
040 _aRDA
_bENGLISH
_c3228
082 _a338.9009 REIN
100 _a Reinert, Erik S
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245 0 _aHow rich countries got rich ... and why poor countries stay poor
_cErik S. Reinert.
260 _aLondon:
_bConstable,
_c2007.
300 _axxix, 365 pages
_bcolour illustrations:
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 336-356) and index.
520 _aSummary: This volume is a narrative history of modern economic development from the Italian Renaissance to the present day. It aims to bury economic orthodoxy once and for all under an avalanche of incontrovertible fact.
521 _aAdult
650 _2Discovering types of economic theories -- The evolution of the two different approaches -- Emulation : how rich countries got rich -- Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against -- Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer -- Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history -- Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea -- 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries.
651 _aSouth Africa
654 _2Economic development Economic history History
655 _aHistory.
_9138377
690 _2227278189
700 _aConstable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2007, Brill, Corbis
_9192357
942 _cBOOK
_2ddc
_y12663
_zPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale
999 _c426289
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